“Dangerous to me, that sexuality, because I'd been burned by that flame once before and would be forever scorched.”

“Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present”

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

“Sometimes love can happen in the blink of an eye. So fast that you barely notice it at first. It flickers like a tiny spark before roaring into a raging bonfire. And then it finally reaches that point you’re covered in flames. I’ve been that way for a while. I feel like I’ve been burning forever.”

“If I'd been burned alive because of bad grades, my parents would have killed me, especially my father, who meant well but was just a little too gung ho for my taste.”

“Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord...”