Kindling Quotes

“if you so much as make a single joke right now or butcher a playground nursery rhyme about trees and kissing and baby carriages, I'll let myself into your apartment and use your comic book collection as kindling. Capiche?”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars

“I swooned quietly with my first bite. The dish sang with the flavors of Spain and was packed with chunks of browned rabbit, chorizo, and mussels. It was spectacular and camaraderie crushing. "Who made this? Who possibly had time for this?" I was talking through a mouthful of Arboro rice. "I made this once in culinary school and it took an entire day of my life that I'll never get back."
"Reza made it." Carlo used an empty mussel shell to pluck the meat out from another shell. "He said he cooked it over an open fire with orange and pine branches for kindling." Carlo grinned at me, a dribble of olive oil snaking its way down his chin. "According to Reza, it's the pine cones, though, that really do the trick. I'm sure you discovered that yourself when you made it on the day you'll never get back."
I nibbled on a cut of caramelized chorizo but didn't have the chance to reply.”
― Kimberly Stuart, Sugar

“A great idea is the spark, too many of which have no kindling.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The truth was, California had always burned - as much as 5.5 to 19 million acres annually in prehistoric times, or up to 19 percent of the state's land. Flames were as typical of the changing seasons as rainstorms and blizzards. The same swath of hillside blackened by the Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire of 1991 had also burned in 1923, 1970, and 1980. But residents were quick to forget the past, and amnesia was part of California's identity. The state legislature left it up to local governments to protect their constituents, and thus development continued unfettered, and more and more homes became kindling.”
― Lizzie Johnson, Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire