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Quotes About Burning

What's this here," he said suspiciously, "about us got to give you faggots?" Oh, we have to have them," said Newt, "We burn them." Say what?" We burn them." The guard's face broadened into a grin. And they'd told him England was soft. "Right on!" he said
~ Terry Pratchett
The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.
~ Terry Pratchett
Your heels are damaging my rug. It's an eighty-thousand-dollar rug." I say, "You like me in heels. Money doesn't signify anymore. And at least I'm not burning holes in it." "A wiser woman wouldn't remind me of that time. I'm still pissed about it.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Roses blanches, tombez ! vous insultez nos Dieux, Tombez, fantômes blancs, de votre ciel qui brûle : - La sainte de l'abîme est plus sainte à mes yeux !
~ Gerard de Nerval
And I knew you, a swelling in the heart, A silence in the heart, the wild wind-blown grass Burning–as the sun falls below the earth– Brighter than a bed of lilies struck by snow. — Brigit Pegeen Kelly, from "Elegy," The Orchard: Poems (BOA Editions Ltd., 2004)
~ Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary,Out by the gas fires of the refinery;I'm ten years burning down the road,Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The beat of her heart, the slow burning away...of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.
~ Bruce Springsteen
That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing focus of the glassy ocean's immeasurable burning-glass.
~ Herman Melville
Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.
~ Ilona Andrews
Love could be such a squalid emotion: burning bright in the midst of pathos, the subject of pity and contempt, it blazed with brilliant stupidity all the same.
~ Steven Erikson
Boatfinder, tell me, from the frozen time into the flowing time, is there a bridge?' His smile was wistful, filled with longing. 'There is.' 'But you cannot cross it.' 'No.' 'Because it's burning.' 'Yes, witch, the bridge burns.
~ Steven Erikson
The touch of the demon was the essence of pleasure. He stroked Daniel's face, his throat, and his burning eyes were full of tenderness.
~ Storm Constantine
He burned with the proximity of her body. She smelled of soap and floral scent.
~ Storm Constantine
I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason. I burned inside to play volleyball. I loved the competition of it.
~ Summer Altice
Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lieAnd burn, here where the starlings fly
~ Charlotte Mew
Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing.
~ Petra March
You're the fire burning inside of me.
~ Kelvin O'Ralph, The Beginning
Of so much moon were your hips to me, of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight, of so much burning light like honey in the shade
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
This girl is magic. She's wild incantations. She's that spark that lit me back to life and I'm burning for her.
~ Rebecca Paula, Everly After
Why does the mention of love, the memory of love, the memory of love lost, the promise of love, the end of love, the absence of love, the burning, burning need for love, need to love, result in so much violence?
~ Miriam Toews
Ens hem d'afanyar, va dir. Però no fugiu pas, vaig fer. No sou pas rates que s'escapen d'un edifici que crema. Es va tornar a posar a riure. Exacte, va dir. Hem triat d'anar-nos-en.
~ Miriam Toews
She's finished her cigarette but hasn't put it out properly, so it's still smoking in the ashtray. I crush mine into it, grinding until both stop burning.
~ Mohsin Hamid
The keepers of wisdom testify a heap of ashes means whatever was there went out burning.
~ Carl Sandburg
De libros malditos, del hombre que los escribió, de un personaje que se escapó de las páginas de una novela para quemarla, de una traición y de una amistad perdida. Es una historia de amor, de odio y de los sueños que viven en la sombra del viento.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon