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“The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.”
“He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it cleanprivet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his rooms through the winter instead, weeping and dreaming.”
“Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.”
“Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours of flames had lifted what had taken him months to design, weeks to ...”
“Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.”
“I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry.""Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.”
“But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didnt want to ignore. - Aurora”
“... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...”
“In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of little screwups recedes now for a few hours to be taken over by the inside world of blowups, this t...”
“When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.”
“A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.”
“People want incongruous, impossible things.”
“Not everything set on fire will rise.”
“Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.”
“The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.”
“What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknes...”
“Genius is initiative on fire.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
“But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.”
“Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?”
