“Our lives are like a candle in the wind.”
“The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds.”
“No matter how long I live, I will always remember the way the light went out of her eyes, like a candle flame caught in an unexpected wind.”
“He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.”
“We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising.”
“...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.”