Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves
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Laura Esquivel
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Mikhail Lermontov
She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.
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Charles Bukowski
Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?
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Gerard Way
That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go...
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Suzanne Collins
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