Quote by Walter Kirn

“The glow within the coals reminded him of the dying embers of hapless love.”

— Felix Alexander

“As he puts it, he was reborn in a coal chute, so he can't look down on anyone now.”

— Lia Habel

“He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Humans had a brightness to them, a glow that only death extinguished.”

— Amy Tintera

“We're all dealt our lumps of coal. What you do with it can turn beautiful.”

— Plumb

“He wanted to sink down and hug the coals to his chest. Flamboyant...coins of light...oil, wood, tatters...fumes from acids, soap, smoke...the sunlight shattered.”

— William H. Gass

“The candle of his life burned out too soon, but it burned so brightly!”

— Adriana Girolami

“Death was in every cell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the…

— William S. Burroughs

“And now that Reason’s light returns, New sorrow in his spirit burns.”

— Sophocles

“Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at…

— Christopher Paolini

“Maybe his quietness masked a great and boiling soul.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“They surrounded him here, but beyond, flames licked the cabins, the incendiary glow striking a similar spark inside him from the injustice they’d faced…

— Katherine McIntyre