"And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire."
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"Fire, fear, foes! Awake!"
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"He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth."
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"A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire."
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"I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.'"
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"Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out."
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"Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire."
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"Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire."
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"What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands."
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"Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects."
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"Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him."
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"Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was."
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"You know you can set fire to the capacity to say."
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"The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange."
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"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women."
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"I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp."
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"I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire."
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"What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His skin smells like smoke from a wood fire, like soap, like heaven. I imagine tasting his skin; I imagine biting his lips. "I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you."
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"Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him."
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"But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get in Portland. No matter how fast you liked them, there were always more, a steady stream of them, resistant, ever-multiplying. Maybe, the hope said. Maybe."
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