Quote by Stephen King

“You can’t burn down a made-up place.”

— John Green

“No. It doesn’t really burn technically. It simply breaks down.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Try not to burn down Aroughs, would you? Cities are rather hard to replace.”

— Christopher Paolini

“Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of fire, for…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Some people were like pottery. They had been tested in a fire just hot enough to make them capable, but perhaps not durable.”

— Heather Burch

“A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more…

— George R.R. Martin

“Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks. Small lights…

— John Owen Theobald

“Why a person who is living in Chicago can’t be buried in New York?”

— OyoKids Publications

“...a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O'Learys' barn. (Where the fire started)”

— Jim Murphy

“I have become a gate To the ruined city, dry, / Indestructible by fire.”

— Howard Nemerov

“The house was burning, the yellow-red sky was like the sunset...Nothing would be left, the golden ferns and the silver ferns, the orchids, the…

— Jean Rhys