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• An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Fire, Evil

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• What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Beautiful, Girl, Opportunity

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.479, Macmillan

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• A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fire, May, Fool

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• You're killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She'd bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn't going to push him beyond where he chose to go. Love wasn't to be based on trickery. But reminding him what he's refusing isn't trickery.

  Melissa Marr

  Killing, Said, Reminding

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• Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

  Janet Fitch

  Home, Want, Faces

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.266, Hachette UK

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• Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Self, Should Have

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For 'the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.'

  John Piper

  Law, Perfect, Soul

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.144, Multnomah

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• Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

  Mordecai Richler

  Father, Dying, Stuff

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• Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

  Jim Butcher

  Couple, Past, Steps

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.16, Penguin

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• Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud!

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Growing Up, Believe

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• She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Laughter, Pain, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.49, GENERAL PRESS

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• Ash paused as he entered the house to find the three women lined up and... singing to... dear gods, anything but this. "Fergilicious." All he needed was for Simi to be here and off-key with them since it was her favorite song and he'd spent the better part of the last year cursing whoever was dumb enough to introduce that song to a hormonal teenaged demon. Worst part? Simi wanted him to call her Similicious.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Song, Keys, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.545, Macmillan

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• In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Spring, Passion, Heart

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• you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Flames, Firsts

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• The last cobwebs
  of fog in the
  black firtrees are flakes
  of white ash in the world's hearth.

  Denise Levertov

  Fog, White, Black

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• Hey, T-Rex? Remind me next time I want to get smartass with you that it’s a really stupid move on my part? (Talon) Oh, no, you don’t, you wuss. You told me the next time you saw Ash you were going to ask him if he’d seen the movie 10,000 BC and if it’d made him homesick. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Moving, Hey

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.756, St. Martin's Press

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• Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
  adjusting the ash heaps;
  opening and shutting itself like
  
  an
  injured fan.

  Marianne Moore

  Blue, Crow, Fans

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.234, Univ of California Press

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• For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be.
  Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea.
  O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
  They're all growing green in the old countrie.

  William Ernest Henley

  Home, Sea, Tree

  William Ernest Henley (2015). “A Selection of Poems”, p.141, Read Books Ltd

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• I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

  Ben Rector

  Heart, Perfect, Fool

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• Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

  Albert Camus

  Doe, Venture, Demon

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• And within the house
  ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
  fury is lapping the walls,
  dishes crack on the shelves,
  a strangler needs my throat,
  the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

  Anne Sexton

  Daughter, Wall, Divorce

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Phoenix, Age

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.87, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Father, Play, Acting

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• She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal.” “It’s Christmas, Dashiel. Can’t you give that atitude a rest?” “Merry Christmas, Dad. And thanks for the presents.” “What presents?” “I’m sorry—those were all from Mom, weren’t they?

  Rachel Cohn

  Mom, Sorry, Dad

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• We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Hate, Dust, Darkness

  Reginald Horace Blyth, British Haiku Society (1994). “The genius of Haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

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