Rachel Caine Quotes

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.

I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if you tell people look, there's all these terrible things you can do and then some idiot may go ahead and do it.

Play with me and you play with fire.

He warmes too neere that burnes.

Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

Fire, even if put on head, burns only.

Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.

Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.