Candle Quotes - Page 14

• So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, Flames, Hands

  Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.161, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Dream, Home

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• Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

  Neal Shusterman

  Flames, Two, Silence

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us, a gloomy line of snuffed-out candles; the nearest are smoking still, cold, melted, and bent. I don’t want to look at them: their shape saddens me, and it saddens me to remember their original light. I look ahead at my lighted candles. I don’t want to turn for fear of seeing, terrified, how quickly that dark line gets longer, how quickly the snuffed-out candles proliferate.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

  Tennessee Williams

  Light, Kitchen, Stronger

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Blood, Lamps

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.228, Velvet Element Books

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• The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once.

  Robin McKinley

  Light, Water, Rose

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• Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

  P. C. Cast

  Wind, My Best Friend, Green

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2007). “Betrayed: A House of Night Novel”, p.221, Macmillan

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• maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Country, Couple, Ignorance

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• A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

  Karen White

  Kissing, Blow, Men

  Karen White (2010). “On Folly Beach”, p.38, Penguin

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• The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

  David Mitchell

  Soul, Nouns, Verbs

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• He is the straight to video sequel to your summer hit movie. He is the verse to that song on the radio you have to hum cause you can’t remember the words. You couldn’t break this kid’s heart, he is so far beyond that. This is the kind of kid who blew out the candles on hope all alone for too many birthdays to remember. And no one has ever fallen in love with anyone with a smile that’s dripping with “please die”.

  Pete Wentz

  Summer, Song, Heart

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• Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Boys, Towns

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  Milan Kundera

  Tombstone, Flower, Garden

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• In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Love, Beautiful, Book

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• There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Football, Mother, Party

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.” He took a draught of wine. “I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I’ve proven I’m no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a habit with us Lannisters, I fear, but I know I have some somewhere. I could be… I could be good to you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kindness, Lying, Flower

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1933, Bantam

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• I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and wanting to escape so badly, I could have stared at them forever: They were amazingly beautiful, so dense and bright. My eyes could get lost up there if I left them looking long enough. [...] They swallowed me up. They were like a hundred thousand tiny candles, sending out hope.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

  William Bradford

  Light, Hands, Giving

  William Bradford (1870). “A Dialogue, or third conference between some young men born in New England, and some ancient men which cam out of Holland and Old England, concerning the Church and the government thereof ... Edited, with a preface and notes, by Charles Deane. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society”, p.6

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• You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

  David Nicholls

  Self Confidence, Giving, Would Be

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he comes down and checks on folks, so long as they hang in certain places, put up alters, burn lots of candles and incense, and perform sit-stand-kneel and other wacky rituals that'd make a coven of witches not look OCD.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Believe, Long, Church

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.136, Delacorte Press

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• If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.

  Cintra Wilson

  Princess, Light, Wind

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• I wish I were a candle in the darkness.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Darkness, Wish

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• Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded.

  Craig Kilborn

  Blow, Cake, Granddaughter

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• Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

  William Kurelek

  Drama, Men, Light

  William Kurelek, Joan Murray (1983). “Kurelek's vision of Canada”, McClelland & Stewart

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