Fire Quote by Patricia A. McKillip

“Deep blackness waits outside; a veiled inferno it attempts to hide. We see no more than dark clouds growing, but set inside, a fire…

— Craig Froman

“All this blackness was within him, but that was where it really mattered. It was night without moon or stars, it was a doorless…

— Susan Dexter

“But the burning man falling from the sky pulled me from my faraway world. My gaze wandered to the window an instant before he…

— Gwen Hayes

“The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible…

— Paul Leppin

“She leaves him sitting there, glancing back just once before going through the stairwell door and observing how the cloud of smoke from his…

— Alden Bell

“When he came home early, he was dreary. There, he'd sit by the fireplace, his worn hands gripping the newspaper a bit too tight,…

— Rana Mohamad

“Night gets its own way in the end. The torches go out, the fire burns down to its internal organs, and the hall is…

— Matthew Francis

“He liked the way the obsidian reflected his light, the way its slick surfaces caught fire as he passed. Of course, he did not…

— Madeline Miller

“He sat on the logs, smoking, drying in the sun, the sun warm on his back the river shallow ahead entering the woods, curving…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He left soon afterwards, leaving her alone in the dark room, illuminated time to time by shocking leaps of heat lightning, and she thought,…

— Truman Capote

“He stands alone in a wasteland of black sand, a realm of charcoal graveyards.  The black mountain stands in the distance, impossibly tall, a…

— Steven Montano

“When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness…

— Cormac McCarthy