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Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character. -- Tracie Peterson
Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire. -- Stephen King
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. -- John Milton
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. -- W. G. Sebald
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air. -- Charles Eisenstein
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. -- James A. Baldwin
Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again. -- Rene Char
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers. -- Ben Jonson
But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them. -- Neil Gaiman
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds. -- Karen Hesse
Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life. -- Charles R. Swindoll
There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets. -- Jeanne DuPrau
Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick. Moved we are by loves sweet song though it plays not for long we can blow on embers bright till passion outtakes the light. -- Nancy Holder
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end." And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes. -- Neil Gaiman
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again. -- Charles Bukowski
Shame is the dying embers of virtue. -- Josh Billings
Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom... -- John Milton
Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire. -- Solomon
Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too. -- Stephen King
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers. -- Adam Zagajewski
[M]embers of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth. -- Ilana Mercer
I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart... -- Neil Peart
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. -- Darin Strauss
My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. -- Charlotte Bronte
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day -- Thomas Overbury
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! -- William Wordsworth
The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind. -- Jackson Browne
We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. -- William Shatner
We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens. -- George Martin
The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife. -- Amrita Pritam
When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars. -- Gregory Maguire
Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow? -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember. -- Phil Ochs
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that. -- Dan Simmons
The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain. -- Hilda Doolittle
In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford -- Jasper Fforde

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