Fire Along the Sky Quotes

“Over the village of Paradise lightning jumped from cloud to cloud and then it put down long legs and walked the earth.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“the day came for every woman when she must choose one kind of life or another or let someone else make the choice for her. For some the crucial moment came suddenly, without warning and when least expected; others saw it approaching, pushing up out of the ground like a weed.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“the day came for every woman when she must choose one kind of life or another or let someone else make the choice for her.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“A snowfield was like a bed, white and smooth and inviting: come and lay your head. Lay your head and sleep. A glittering soft death, a sliding away without noise or pain.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“How often do we find love in the world, that it should be set aside so thoughtlessly?”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“He threw his senses out around him, a swirling of a cloak that dropped down to touch his children, all of them close by. Daniel had come in late and sat for a long time with Luke, talking through the plans he could take no part in. He had gone to sleep on the cot in the room off the kitchen, and so for this night at least all three boys were under this one roof.

Hannah was just over the hill in her chamber at the doctor's place, Lily a little farther away through the woods, sleeping with her good husband beside her. Tomorrow they would be scattered again. Only Gabriel would be left to them, but for this moment, at least, he knew where they were and that they were safe, and he would hold on to that for as long as he could.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“They could bind her to them, all of them, with need and love and worry. But they would not. They knew her as well as she knew them, and they would not ask her to stay.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“In the distance the sky sparked and caught on fire, glowing green and gold and purple. Over the village of Paradise lightning jumped from cloud to cloud and then it put down long legs and walked the earth. The thunder came with a great rip of sound. Hannah closed her eyes and saw the light still, throbbing bloodred.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“There's something your ma said to me a long time ago, I never have forgot it. She said, every one of us has got a few demons that we carry with us wherever we go, whether we want to or not. They can't be shook off or run away from.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“I always thought your grandfather would come back here to die," he said. "To be buried next to her." He looked into the shadows for a moment, thinking of his mother, of the grandmother Hannah had loved so dearly and lost so young.

"But he never came. I expect he's gone now, but I don't know that for a fact. Sometimes I wake up at night wondering, and you know, daughter, I think maybe that's just what he wanted. He wanted me to think of him out there in the world someplace. It's a comfort to me, that much I got to admit. To think he might walk up the mountain some morning and be standing there when I wake up—if I live another fifty years, I'll still be wondering if maybe—" He paused. "If that's what he wanted, then it's a kind of a gift a father can give to a son.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“Dying shouldn't be so hard," he said. "It shouldn't be harder than living.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky

“Pain had a posture of its own; it sat in the spine and across the slope of the shoulders and bowed bone.”
― Sara Donati, Fire Along the Sky