“I forgot... Not to play with fire... Because... when it Burn...d thing left... just Ash....”
“How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?”
“You’re playing with fire, man.”“I can handle the burn. Just do what I asked.”
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
“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?”
“You should know what happens when you play with fire, Cahill. Eventually, you'll get burned.”