Ashes Quote by Laini Taylor

“What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded skirts and coats in wardrobes--those alone kept the human…

— Virginia Woolf

A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to…

— Blaise Cendrars

“The sky darkened, the liquid singing of the blackbirds diminished and ceased, mud hens swam back to shore, climbed up the banks and huddled…

— Leonard Gardner

“What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to horizon, and thin white wreaths…

— E. Nesbit

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses…

— James Joyce

they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four…

— Toni Morrison

“The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“At times throughout the night, they seemed to turn from real, living people into mere photographs of people, and then from photographs into memories,…

— Josh Ritter

“We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“An empty hat and raincoat floated at the center of the diagram in Unwin’s mind. Beside them was a dress filled with smoke. A…

— Jedediah Berry

It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of…

— Charles Dickens