“And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.”

“Arik passed another smug look to Brian, then toMegeara. He was getting tired of her mistrust—not that hedidn't deserve it. It was merely causing him aggravation—aninteresting emotion that. He didn't like it. It was tooaggravating.”

“Breaking up could sit in front of you for a while. It was a ring of fire you had to at last decide to run through. You finally got tired of standing there, looking at it, feeling the heat, tired enough to finally just let go. Getting burned at last seemed better than the waiting to get burned.”

“I was hopelessly drawn to him like a moth to a flame... I had a feeling I would get burned by Carter Morgan, but I didn't care.”

“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.”

“It could get them all burned.” Then he adds in a whisper, almost to himself, “But the fire can be tempting.”