If We Burn You Burn With Us Quote Novels & Stories

Instead, I just sit. I sit, and I burn.

A beat dropped through the speakers, and before I could run or throw myself out the window again, Kai grabbed the remote mic and started belting: "You are… my fire..." His voice cracked. Horribly. I burst out laughing so hard I nearly fell off the couch. “Oh my God, stop! You sound like a dying goat.” He pointed the mic at me. “Join me or suffer eternal shame.” “Im already suffering eternal shame!” But I was laughing too hard to say no. So I grabbed another remote from the coffee table and stood up dramatically. "Tell me why" I screeched, totally off-key.

"We go together, or we burn together. Nobody takes you from me." We push forward into the dark, leaving the blood and the broken code behind us in the mud, heading toward whatever awaits us at the end of the night.

Let's torture each other together. Let's watch this fire that won't go out. Until death lets us rest.

"And I'm going to keep that promise. Even if I have to burn the whole forest down." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

We burned the clock to ash. And we would burn together — brighter, fiercer, unbroken — until the only thing left was the story we had written with our own hands.

Elena walked back to the bonfire with sand in her shoes and Noah's warmth still pressed into her skin like something she'd never asked for and couldn't give back. She almost turned around twice. Didn't. The fire had gotten bigger—someone had thrown on more driftwood—and the group was louder, drunker, easier. A girl was doing a terrible impression of their Spanish teacher and everyone was losing it. Normal. God, so embarrassingly, achingly normal. Elena stood at the edge of the circle and blinked at it all like she'd just surfaced from underwater.

"There’s no going back after this. If we start this fire, the whole city burns." "Let it burn," I said.

We burn bright in the darkness, and warm in the coldest of winters. Together.