Firefighters Quotes

“Falling in love with you was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. Falling is easy. Staying that way is hard. But I’ve been choosing hard all my life, so why the hell would the life I make with the woman who completes me be any different? I love you like a madman. You’re the air I breathe, my next heartbeat, and I’m never letting go.”
― Kate Meader, Sparking the Fire

“She’d been seconds away from kissing the man… no, throttling him, for his sheer audacity.  “You expect me to bat my eyes and thrust my tits into some hairy creature’s face and then run away like a giggling simpleton?”
“They only have the one eye under all that hair, and their eyesight is notoriously bad, so you can probably just keep your… tits where they are. ”
― Jane Cousins, To Vex A Valkyrie

“What?” The corner of his mouth turned up, his white teeth gleaming in the light.
“Just thinking how hot you are.”
He scoffed and playfully rolled his eyes. “Thanks—but aren’t all firefighters hot? I mean, we do basically live in fire.”
― Shaye Evans, Seduction Squad

“I was shown mold, leaking pipes, exposed asbestos insulation, broken toilets, cracked floors, malfunctioning heating units, feces bubbling up from the sewer pipes in the basements. I had seen better government buildings in the slums of Tijuana. Neven and the boys from 23 told me it was bad but what I was seeing was worse than the Baghdad fire department, which actually got more than one hundred fifty million dollars from the United States government, while Detroit got zero.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy

“Lie on your stomach,” I ordered between kisses.
He pulled away. “Why?”
“Just do it.”
― Shaye Evans, Seduction Squad

“Pucker up, Hollywood. By the time I’m finished with you, the neighbors are gonna need a cigarette.”
― Kate Meader, Sparking the Fire

“That’s right, baby. Scratch me up. Make your mark. I wanna look at my body later and know who I belong to.”
― Kate Meader, Sparking the Fire

“In 2020, first responders were cheered, revered, heckled and jeered. The intensity of the year has brought about change and review of the policies and procedures surrounding first responders.”
― Asa Don Brown

“First responders are notorious for being reserved about their emotions and emotional wellbeing.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Firefighters are taught early on not to leave any person behind. It has been etched on countless plaques, statues, and national monuments honoring those who have fallen.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Being accountable is somewhat ingrained into the life of a first responder.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Many first responders shy away from sharing their innermost feelings.”
― Asa Don Brown

“There is a common thread that weaves throughout the very fabric of every first responder.”
― Asa Don Brown

“We must work together to remove the stigma that has fulled our indifference to mental health and we must encourage our fellow first responder to seek professional care.”
― Asa Don Brown

“It is important to understand that the stigma around mental health creates barriers for those who most need mental health services.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Given the pandemic and remote schooling, children are now being expected to perform at a higher pace and with greater productivity. The demands not only affect the children, but the demands are overflowing onto their parental caregivers.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Sean lay back and listened, watching her with a smile playing over his mouth.

"it's a really good thing I don't have self-esteem issues," he told her when her spasms of hilarity started to die down. "Also, it's a good thing I hear your sex sound first, You have no grounds to ridicule me, woman.”
― Jennifer Bernard, Set the Night on Fire

“I never should have come back to Jupiter Point. I've ruined everything for Evie."

"That's not true," Suzanne said impatiently. "My cousin's a lot happier since you got here. Regular sex will do that for you."

Josh snorted coffee though his nose, then clapped a hand to his face with a moan of agony. "You should really warn a guy before tossing the word'sex' out there."

"Sorry, big guy. I'll be more careful with your delicate sensibilities from now on," Suzanne teased.”
― Jennifer Bernard, Set the Night on Fire

“Suddenly energized, she jumped to her feet and bounced up and down on the couch. Clean clothes went flying off the pile. Maybe she should feel bad because she'd just seen what a huge flaw she'd uncovered in herself. But she didn't.

She felt free and alive. Up to now, she hadn't really been living. Not fully and completely. That had to change. Immediately.

"What are you doing? I'm hearing weird sounds."

"I'm pulling a Tom Cruise. And I;m also waving a bra around. HUnter, this is amazing? YOu've changed everything. We should have talked like this long ago."

"You're freaking me out, sis. Do I need to call someone?”
― Jennifer Bernard, Set the Night on Fire

“How long do you have to stay and socialize?"

"Well, I still have to butter up the president of the Jupiter Point Business Coalition."

"I do hope you mean literally."

His eyes darkened with desire and he pulled her tighter against him. "As you wish, milady.”
― Jennifer Bernard, Set the Night on Fire

“I understand that what you're doing when you call 911--it sounds so perfunctory--is announcing to strangers that you are losing the battle. I no longer have the strength, I no longer have the answers, the trouble is winning, and won't you please come help"?”
― Michael Perry

“The apocalyptic firefighters chopped away mercilessly at the infected, until none were left.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Every one of them who got into turnouts, and took their bodies and their minds into open flames for little money and lots of risk, for strangers, for animals they didn't own, for houses they didn't own, for people they weren't related to … they were all insane. Because this was the other side of the adrenaline rush, the savior complex, the fight.

Tragedy was but a moment. Responsibility for it was forever.

And eventually, the latter turned you dark on the inside, molding over your emotions, making you toxic and uncleanable even as you looked the same on the outside. For every firefighter she knew who'd been hurt or died on the job, she knew even more who were corpses in their own skin.

They didn't tell you about all that when you were in the academy.

Good thing, too.”
― J.R. Ward, Consumed

“The desire to prevent the quagmire of a blazing fire requires that one acquires a potent fire extinguisher.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Is there a firefighter afraid of fire? Yes, there are many! However, it is obvious that the love for the firefighting profession is much greater than this fear!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The movie always ends with the ‘I love you.’ He's holding the boombox outside of her room, and they ride off into the sunset. You never hear they broke up a week later when she wanted an East Coast school and he wanted West Coast. The thing that makes love lasting and true is knowing another person. You feel for them, but do you know them, the good, the bad, and the ugly, in your heart of hearts.

- Theo Jefferson from Smolder: A Strong Woman Firefighter Romance”
― Carina Alyce, Smolder

“But he knew from the academy there is no “I” in the words company or brotherhood, and he knew his role, although not as demanding as the other members of the company, was an essential one.”
― Frank Napolitano, Day of Days: September 11, 2001, A Novel of the Fire Service

“Someone has put a huge sign across the World Financial Center reading WE WILL NEVER FORGET. It ripples gently in the wind above a thrirty-foot-wide American flag. I appreciate this sentiment, and the fact that it has been stated in twenty-foot-tall lettering. But I can't help thinking, we do forget. Ultimately, we find that it is almost always in our interest to do so, for our own benefit as a society.”
― Dennis Smith, Report from Ground Zero

“He smells like an outhouse is on fire, and firefighters are trying to extinguish it with hot dog burps.”
― GLEN NESBITT

“You generally didn't want to tangle with a firefighter; they had muscles from hauling gear and bad attitudes from breathing toxic chemicals and remembering the screams of burning children.”
― Jason Pargin, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom