197 Quotes About Ashes

Unlike at the top of the rubber tree, here on the ground things were less comfortable, infested with anthills, pests and tree parasites. Anthills appeared overnight, sculpting dark mounds on the wooden fence and the tree trunks. The task of destroying the anthills would always be left to me. It was quite a spectacle seeing these organised families going up in flames. What a pleasure I got from witnessing a whole hierarchy of insects turn to ash.

Burn me down to ashes,Lend me to the flames.Rise again I valiantly shall,For LOVE is but my name.

Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?"She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance.Instead, he kissed her.

I see it for what is is, now. It is a house built on ashes. Ashes of the life Granddad shared with Gran, ashes of the maple from which the tire swing flew, ashes of the old Victorian house with the porch and the hammock. The new house is built on the grave of all the trophies and symbols of the family: the New Yorker cartoons, the taxidermy, the embroidered pillows, the family portraits.

the sun doesn't scare the shadows awaythe light casts these tethered crude images ontoa space to be trampled by another's step

His old life was literally in flames behind him. But Annev was a phoenix. He would find a way to rise from the ashes.

Miri laughed in return and felt her face go hot again, and it occurred to her that after so much burning her cheeks should be ashes by now.

AshesThat winter, she and her younger brother made a six-hour drive to a beach on the south coast. The box holding their mother's powdered bones they enshrined in an ossuary; the small temple nearby with a view of the distant sea would house the woman's soul.