Bonfire Quote by Brandon Sanderson

“Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would…

— Brandon Sanderson

“A dozen candles burned themselves to death on the shelf before me. Each of my breaths made them tremble. To them, I was a…

— Brandon Sanderson

“A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more…

— George R.R. Martin

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering

— Cassandra Clare

The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate…

— Cormac McCarthy

There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds…

— Ray Bradbury

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this…

— Tove Jansson

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

— Martin Puryear

“Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry”

— Alan Moore

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to…

— Peter Benenson

“I will gather up a lifetime of things unsaid, write them down, and then offer them all to be lit up for security and…

— Suzanne Valtsioti

“But most often she watched the candles as if their outcome held her own, the flames almost extinguishing themselves, but, by some greed of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides