“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
“And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.”
“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in order to repeat the past.”
“He'd seen a phoenix waiting to rise from the ashes, and he still did. every time he looked into Zane, he saw something extraordinary.”
“The phoenix must burn to emerge.”