Quote by Patricia A. McKillip

“She turned away. Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. But they weren’t…

— Philip Pullman

“A deadly, vicious sort of calm filled Celaena’s veins. She’d snapped once at Lysandra—when they were thirteen and Lysandra had snatched a lovely lace…

— Sarah J. Maas

“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered like a…

— Eric Overby

“The air was thick with nostalgia, scented by the bonfire, and alight with fireflies. Their tiny yellow lights danced with orange embers against the…

— Julie Anne Lindsey

“It was just a person, she told herself as the figure now turned to face her fully. A person wearing a cloak darker than…

— Sarah J. Maas

“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against…

— Iain Banks

“Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the Itineris didn’t suck as much as I’d thought. Something had scared this werewolf, and there were…

— Rachel Hawkins

“She was a match, lit with fire the second he drew near. and if he got close enough, she ignited him, and together they…

— R.J. Lewis

“Footsteps shuffled on the stair/Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair/Spread out in fiery points/Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.”

— T.S. Eliot

“He released something elemental in her, some primitive force she hadn’t even been aware of until he came along. It was frightening, in a…

— Lynn Turner

“She slid open the box, extracted a match, and struck it with a flourish. The flame flared up in the gloom of the unlit…

— Helen Grant

“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