“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

“Coloured people don't like. Burn it. White people don't feel good about. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.”

“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”

“You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow”

“…He is driven by bitterness and anger. You can understand that.’
Nico wanted to yell, Like you know what I feel?”

“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”

“[She] heard the bitter, heartsick words
that made the fires of Hell burn cold
and soothed the lost spirits under the world.”

“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

“My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven.”