Quote by William Faulkner

“She left a lingering smudge of smoke on the sky, and two vanishing trails of foam on the water.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I might look and smell smokeless now, but I’ve been burned beyond the surface.”

— Zara Hairston

“I took the long way back, past the swaying lights of the harbor, the air heavy with brine and with chimney smoke from a…

— Ransom Riggs

“That world he wanted them to know had vanished as smoke deserts the dying embers that made it.”

— Annie Proulx

“Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.”

— Susan Ee

“Between us, we have the fire and the water. I'm quite sure that together, we can take on the wind.”

— R.F. Kuang

“If I could turn into a wisp of smoke, I could slip into them and disappear.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“I am sure the ocean catches fire ocassionally.”

— jay bell

“I found a pristine lake, undisturbed by man. So, of course I had to clang a few pots and piss in the lake, to…

— Jarod Kintz

“I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.”

— Patricia Cornwell

“It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more…

— John D. MacDonald

“A few flames crackled here and there along the nubs that once were branches. Then they flickered out, too, leaving smoke, a whistle of…

— Michael Chabon