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Quotes About Burned

We burned them all. On a night when Granddad and the rest had taken boats across the bay, When the staff was off duty And we liars we're alone on the island, The four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
A wind with a wolf's head Howled about our door, And we burned up the chairs And sat upon the floor.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Is it dawn? She climbs the ladder and presses her ear to the trapdoor. No more sirens. Maybe the house burned
~ Anthony Doerr
Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
~ Kate Williams
The walk between our house and the bus stop is marked by decay and wreckage. A row of shops, flats, community centres and an old cinema is boarded up, burned out, cracking and rotting.
~ Michael Rosen
Innocent little villages full of homes torn and trampled under foot and burned! the Duchess almost cried out. And worse things than that—worse things!
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
A sense of unreality was stealing over her, a ringing in which all sound was one. Then her eyelids were knocked upright. She saw what was really happening. As the veil was torn away, as the statue of the burned stood washing in pleasant sunlight, as the master butchers parted their lips in song, smoke and ash poured out of their mouth holes like chimneys.
~ Louise Erdrich
Anyway, it was an age of spiritual exhaustion—all the old dreams were dreamed out. I was angry; I burned like that furnace; reading more, sick with rage.
~ Saul Bellow
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
~ Edward James Olmos
I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.
~ Antonio Machado
Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
~ Janet Montgomery
Life, life, you sang with every cell, compelled into dancing as the spell held you enchained and you burned air.
~ Margaret Atwood
She is the witch you burned by daylight and crept from your home to consult & bribe at night. The love that tortured you you blamed on her.
~ Margaret Atwood
Chapter 40, the centre of violation, in which Huntingdon rakes through her diary, discovers her savings and has her paintings burned, a spiritual rape.
~ Anne Bronte
Does sunset sometimes look like the sun is coming up? Do you know what a faithful love is like? You're crying; you say you've burned yourself. But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke? —Rumi
~ Anne Lamott
I need you to take Amanda shopping for clothes. The Daimons burned her house down and she has nothing except the clothes on her back. Nick arched a brow. From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Seeker saw something sorrowful in the line of the Queen's neck and shoulders, but she poked her old rotten hatred up hot and burned whatever scrap of pity might have followed the thought.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Her fingertips brushed the cool nanomesh of Perceval's parasite wing, and she jerked it back with a gasp, sucking her fingertips as if she'd burned them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
You asked me for a light for your candle, and I tried to give you the sun, and now you are burned.
~ Gene Wolfe
The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.
~ Bjork
In the equal light of disinterested scrutiny such things are not themselves. They are transformed into pure object, and are horrible, and must be burned.
~ Marilynne Robinson
What a place to put a city, right on the front line of absolute zero. No wonder a cow burned it down.
~ Mark Helprin
Gathered round the bucket of coke that burned in front of the shelter, several figures were swinging arms against bodies and rubbing hands together with large, pantomimic gestures: like comedians giving formal expression to the concept of extreme cold.
~ Anthony Powell