Ashes Quote by Markus Zusak

“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

“Toward the evening the sky took on the same color as the fires. Everything took on that color, the sky, the buildings, even the…

— Louis Brandsdorfer

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass…

— Francis Thompson

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

“The sky was a dome of pale blue streaked with alabaster. Crossing the Stephansplatz, he was nearly toppled by the wind. It was an…

— Daniel Silva

The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon…

— Anonymous

“The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the…

— Stephen King

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

— Sherwood Anderson

“That, too, was in the air itself -- a whisper of apology when the smell of the soil carried. There should be pumpkins in…

— Christian Crews

“Here in the forest lay sullen, soot-blackened stones that were the remains of ruined hearths; in abandoned cemeteries were dark headstones that had already…

— Vasily Grossman

“And as we stood there, a curious thing happened: a kind of window opened in the rain, just as if a cloud had been…

— Francis Brett Young

“And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could ever have imagined in his wildest dreams. Too hot to be…

— Arthur C. Clarke