“About, about, in reel and routThe death-fires danced at night;The water, like a witch's oils,Burnt green, and blue, and white”
“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
“The only one I'd like to talk about Augustus Waters' death is Augustus Waters.”
“Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at its melancholy rim, green in its envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in its greatest rages, black.”
“The world beyond the water was a blue of green and stone and blue. A moment later Yoshi pushed through, the water pouring down in sheets so smooth it looked like glass, and stepped into the calm [p. 296]”
“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”