“I am ashes where once I was fire…”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Source: Selected Poems
“You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.”
— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
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