"Each book starts from ashes."
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"We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved."
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"I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again."
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"I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth."
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"Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes."
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"Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?"
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"I am ashes where once I was fire."
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"Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living."
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"Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value"
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"He reached forward then took me in his arms, held me close for a moment, the breath of snow and ashes cold around us. Then he kissed me, released me, and I took a deep breath of cold air, harsh with the scent of burning."
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"Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire."
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"What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?"
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"We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved."
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"Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction."
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"History is a bucket of ashes."
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"Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know." Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve," Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without."
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"Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan."
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"The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish."
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"Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them."
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"The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]"
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