Dark Smoke Quote by Marie Lu

“What we are doing here is building a giant rocket ship, and we’re going to light the fuse. Then it’s either going to go…

— Brad Stone

“Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop…

— Randall Munroe

“There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is…

— Victor Hugo

“For me, there’s something about planes that isolates and intensifies sadness, the way a looking glass can magnify the sun until it grows unbearably…

— Will Schwalbe

“The easiest way to witness the stupidity and misplaced hopes of all humanity is to watch, for twenty minutes, a human using a leaf…

— Dave Eggers

“Inbound now at twenty thousand feet, moving swifly toward the island, came a wave of twin-engine Betty bombers and thirty Zeros, fuel burning fast…

— James D. Hornfischer

“I took the long way back, past the swaying lights of the harbor, the air heavy with brine and with chimney smoke from a…

— Ransom Riggs

“Their jetpacks roared at full power. They shot forward, leaving behind streams of flame.”

— Daniel Arenson

“Oh no. A leaf blower. The easiest way to witness the easiest way to witness the stupidity and misplaced hopes of all humanity is…

— Dave Eggers

“Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.”

— Susan Ee

“He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he…

— Tom Conrad

“There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares glowed and disappeared. Shrapnel burst with bluish white…

— William Manchester