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Quotes About Burning

Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lie And burn, here where the starlings fly
~ Charlotte Mew
The men of the 47th North Carolina could not actually have looked across Washington to see the burning Long Bridge from the position in which I have them doing so. Geography occa sionally has to bend just a little to serve the novelist's needs.
~ Harry Turtledove
A teakettle screamed inside Azalea, burning her fingers, making her throat tight and her head dizzy.
~ Heather Dixon
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work.
~ Lemony Snicket
incandescent afternoons in Spain, the shutters closed, a blade of sun burning into the darkness.
~ James Salter
Steph?" "Huh?" I still had my hands on his stomach, and I could feel him laughing. "I can smell something burning, babe. You must be thinking." It wasn't my brain that was on fire. I felt around a little with my fingertips. He shook his head. "Don't encourage me. This isn't a good time." He removed my hands from his stomach and took another look at the cuts. "How did this happen?
~ Janet Evanovich
My freckles felt like they would burst into flame.
~ Janet Fitch
Fasting is the simplest and surest method to force your body to burn sugar. Blood glucose is the most easily accessible source of energy. Fasting is merely the flip side of eating – if you are not eating, you are fasting. When you eat, your body stores food energy. When you fast, your body burns food energy. If you simply lengthen out your periods of fasting, you can burn off the stored sugar.
~ Tim Noakes
If you need 15 minutes in the sun to trigger a melanin response, 15 minutes is your MED for tanning. More than 15 minutes is redundant and will just result in burning and a forced break from the beach. During this forced break from the beach, let's assume one week, someone else who heeded his natural 15-minute MED will be able to fit in four more tanning sessions. He is four shades darker, whereas you have returned to your pale pre-beach self.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Where fire really burns and the light itself burns your eyes, where songs are the most beautiful songs you have ever heard, and emotions passed over in daily life take on a horrifying, uncanny hue
~ Timothy Morton
The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames.
~ Diana Nyad
It seemed that twenty-five thousand Chicanos had marched down Whittier Boulevard. But what had started as a protest against the burning of peasants in Vietnam turned into a massive public declaration by fire of their own existence
~ Oscar Zeta Acosta
yo me abraso, y el amor reina en mi corazón deshabitado.
~ Ovidio Publio Nasone
and everything burned in blue, everything a star
~ Pablo Neruda
It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.
~ Pablo Neruda
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
Y algo golpeaba en mi alma, fiebre o alas perdidas, y me fui haciendo solo, descifrando aquella quemadura y escribí la primera línea vaga, vaga, sin cuerpo, pura, tontería pura sabiduría del que no sabe nada, y vi de pronto el cielo desgranado y abierto.
~ Pablo Neruda
They were all of timber. He saw vividly a sheet of fire spreading across the entire city, burning crops and orchards, billowing along the
~ Patricia A. McKillip
and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.
~ Dan Brown
He saw blurry white forms. Why they all are wearing white? Langdon decided he was either in an asylum or heaven. From the burning in his throat, Langdon decided it could not be heaven.
~ Dan Brown
Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
~ William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright in the forests of the night...
~ William Blake
Well, Bud, he said, looking at me, I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?
~ William Faulkner
Rage rises up in me until my whole body is scorched, for some kinds of burning don't require a fire. Not a word of love, not a word of apology for the sorrow he has caused me. Not a word about the unjust and cruel way in which he sent me away. He hasn't even called me by my name.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni