Burning Quote by Cynthia Bass

“As far as I could tell, Mount Sherman had no ego, no desire to create its own destiny. It was surrendered, as all of…

— Jan Karon

“Sherman’s army, after all the depletions, numbered about sixty thousand effective men. All weak men had been left to hold the rear, and those…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in…

— Terry Pratchett

“There was a guy roasting chestnuts on the street corner, and the smell wafted over, hinting at the coming Winter, but in a good…

— Sarah Dunn

“The midnight hour passed, making it Christmas Eve and the beginning of possibly the worst day Ranulf could remember. The embers in the hearth…

— Michele Sinclair

“In the peace of winter’s chill, I stacked firewood to fuel a stove that kept me warm. And I thought about how doing something…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“...Until they stood at last by a crumbling wall, looking up and up and still farther up at the great tombyard top of the…

— Ray Bradbury

“The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.”

— Jack Kerouac

“That night they camped, in a grove of oaks and beeches where a spring ran. The nights were still cool and they had a…

— William Faulkner

“He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees,…

— Elizabeth Enright

“Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say?…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“It was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children”

— Robert McCammon