Like our parents alwaystold us not to likefirefighters warn againstwe're playinggames and makingthe rules upas we go we'rematchingwarmth to warmthstarting fires burningwishes into ourskin we're hiddenholdingforbidden lightswe're childrenwhose fathers havenever taught nevertouchbut we're findingthese new flameswe smotherat the sound of footsteps.
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
More Quotes By Naomi Shihab Nye
Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem, ” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell a secret instead:poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadowsdrifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What...
I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can...
You will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leafknow you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time.-- The Art of Disappearing
Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
