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Quotes About Heat

It was with an agitated burning heart and brain that I hurried homewards, regardless of that scorching noon-day sun - forgetful of everything but her I had just left.
~ Anne Bronte
I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
~ Anne Enright
So far away from that gloomy New Orleans corner, from the sad old city festering with secrets in its perpetual Caribbean heat
~ Anne Rice
And everything I see when I look at you is utterly insubstantial. It is a commingling of tiny movements and indefinable colors as if you haven't a body at all, but are a collection of heat and light. You are light itself, and what am I now? Eternal as I am, I curl like a cinder in that blaze.
~ Anne Rice
I was weak from the heat of my own miserable thoughts.
~ Anne Rice
The cat made a comma of sweat across his bare thighs.
~ Anne Tyler
I've recently noticed how often I find my characters on a tropical beach during some part of many of my stories. There's something very sensuous about the warm water, the sounds of the palm leaves rustling in the breeze, the lack of clothing and the heat of the sun against bare skin that's very appealing and definitely puts me in a mood to fantasize.
~ Annette Broadrick
The bonfire was going a treat
~ Sharon Lee
Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
~ Sherman Alexie
It was July. Crazy hot and dry. It hadn't rained in, like, sixty days. Drought hot. Scorpion hot. Vultures flying circles in the sky hot.
~ Sherman Alexie
Taryn, is it really that bad? (Janine) Considering the fact that I'm stuck out in this wretched heat wearing high heels with a black car that currently wouldn't go downhill with a hurricane pushing it, I'd say yes. (Taryn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.' – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.
~ Suzanne Collins
It's also probably not a good idea to cook meat at extremely high heat, as charred meat has many toxins.
~ John Durant
Far more calories are used to heat the body than to move it.
~ John Durant
put out the candles with your fire—I'm on fire
~ john j geddes
Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials.
~ John Kennedy Toole
That day of battle in the dusty heat We lay and heard the bullets swish and sing Like scythes amid the over-ripened wheat, And we the harvest of their garnering.
~ John McCrae
in the sweltering attic, and
~ Elin Hilderbrand
The only God is in the numbers and the fire; in the equations and the furnace
~ Elizabeth Bear
Chalcedony wasn't built for crying. She didn't have it in her, not unless her tears were cold tapered glass droplets annealed by the inferno heat that had crippled her.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He wanted to close his eyes at the declaration, remembering the heat of a crimson iron close enough to curl his lashes. The hand that did not hold his cane tightened on a bit of silk in his socket, and something pricked him. The enchanted nail Kit had given him, and Will drew strength from it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In a moment, the heat would touch him. Kit braced himself for the pain, tilting his chin down to this chest and imagining that his weight flowed like water through his pelvis and down his legs, anchoring him to the floor.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Wolf wore leather gloves, and still the heat of his body soaked through, so hot Cathoair thought he would surely have burns wherever the wolf touched him.
~ Elizabeth Bear