If We Burn You Burn With Us Quote Novels & Stories

A picture of the bodies being burned in the incinerator. Momma cleared her throat loudly. "We have suffered a loss. But in his loss, we can know that he is in a better place. For those that remain behind, we must love more fiercely. Stand ever firmer. And be stronger than ever. No one is allowed to tear us apart. Not even from within. We stand because -" "We are fierce." Turo's were hard. Nico's smile was sad. "We are loyal." Massi lifted his head from my shoulder. "We are savage." His voice was a broken, harsh whisper yell.

I nodded in affirmation and he motioned for me to rise. "Say this after me" "This day, I swear." The Guardian voice boomed. "This day, I swear." I intoned. "To stay together, through thick or thin." "To stay together through thick or thin." "Though fire may rage and burn, our bond will never be destroyed." "Though fire may rage and burn, our bond will never be destroyed." "If our bond be broken, let this be the end of all worlds, destruction of all that breathes. Let this bond stand the test of time!!!"

Arthur stood before the gathered faithful one evening and declared, "Let this be the last fire kindled in vengeance. From here on, we burn only for truth, for love, for light." The crowd roared with joy. And somewhere deep in the sky, thunder rolled—not a threat, but a benediction. The flame had not died. It had found its home.

She whispered against his collarbone: “They don’t own the fire anymore.” Cassian’s voice was low. “No. You do.” She looked out at the crowd. At the ash in the water. At the boy who watched from behind Nova’s leg, his drawing clutched in his hand. Then she said, to everyone: “You will forget names. You will forget policies. But you will not forget this.” “And when they come again because they will you will remember: I burned, and I walked out.”

Fed them to the fire, and let them burn till the end that's how they will know it. And when the last page burned, she whispered the line she’d once written at the treaty’s end: “We tried to build with words. Now we build with ruin.”

The world could burn. Let it.

"Release everything. Because we're going to do the same thing. We're going to take every piece of evidence we have and we're going to burn your empire to the ground. You might take us down, but you're coming with us." The line went silent for three heartbeats. "You're making a mistake," Takeshi said finally. "Probably. But it's my mistake to make." "Then I'll see you in hell, Collins." The line went dead. Jerome was staring at Collins with an expression that was half terror, half awe. "Did you just declare war on one of the most powerful men in Japanese corporate society?" "I think I did." "Using evidence we have no way to actually verify in court?"

I pressed. “I’m in.” Caroline wiped her eyes. “Whatever it takes. I’m in.” I felt something loosen in my chest. We were united. Actually united. “Okay,” I said. “Then this is what we’re going to do.” I paused, making sure I had everyone’s attention. “We’re going to burn this house to the ground.” Silence. “What?” Mei breathed. “We’re going to burn it,” I repeated. “Burn it to ashes. Destroy everything. And in the chaos, we run.”

And soon, it was going to burn everything down. Even us.

Becoming. And this time, we don’t hold back. We burn.