Burning Quote by Rupert Thomson

“And grief was dangerous, because people fought hard and smart to protect the living. People got themselves—and everyone around them—killed trying to avenge the…

— Kit Rocha

“The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city…

— Jim Murphy

“The townsfolk in their darkened rooms were dazed as if by some cataclysm, some devastating earthquake, against which all wisdom and all resistance is…

— Guy de Maupassant

“I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows.…

— Mo Hayder

“When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“Death continues to stalk the streets, stealing the souls of our children as they sleep. We're running out of fingers to close their eyes,…

— Joanne Owen

“Los Angeles didn't get like this often. He hated it when it did. And this time it was holding on. It had been brutal…

— Joseph Hansen

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing…

— William Dean Howells

“The ashes from the crematory pits fell like snowflakes onto his hair and his black uniform. These were the ashes of the dead and…

— Roberta Kagan

“...Until they stood at last by a crumbling wall, looking up and up and still farther up at the great tombyard top of the…

— Ray Bradbury

“A lot of corpses woke up every morning from their graves. Stood in front of the mirror and wore the masks which made them…

— Akshay Vasu