“Our spirits leaped, hosannas of destruction,
Like desert lilies forked with tongues of fire.”

“We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.”

“Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms.”

“I'm a fire without a flame, desert with no rain…”

“I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.”

“I said
"Lily, Oh Lily I'm so afraid
I fear I am walking in the Veil of Darkness"
And she said
"Child, take what I say
With a pinch of salt
And protect yourself with fire"”

“The wound that’s made by fire will heal,
But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.”

“There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.”

“When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.”

“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”