Alight Quote by Ayana Mathis

“All of them -- Hattie and Willie and Evelyn and even ruined, crazy Walter -- were little lights; sparks flying upward in dark places,…

— Ayana Mathis

“They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, as outline the darkness.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The spark is still there. The problem with sparks was that they were born both bright and short-lived.”

— Codi Gary

“There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark”

— Dev

“As the sun sank lower in the sky and the shadows lengthened around us, I slowly came to realize that Ash wasn't coming back.…

— Julie Kagawa

“Humans had a brightness to them, a glow that only death extinguished.”

— Amy Tintera

“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered like a…

— Eric Overby

“Footsteps shuffled on the stair/Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair/Spread out in fiery points/Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.”

— T.S. Eliot

“All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like…

— John A. Ashley

“Love, they said, burns you and builds you. But with you, there’s no ash. Just light.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold…

— Cormac McCarthy

“...the shadows thrown by a single candle flame often can be more frightening that total darkness.”

— Neil Abramson