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Quotes About Burning

El último lunes de agosto es un día de verano con una luz ya otoñal, como si el sol estuviera cansado de quemar, o se hubiera cubierto la cara con un velo de gasa. La
~ Almudena Grandes
What kind of sick bastard burns down a Christmas tree?" Hugh and I exchanged glances. "That's an excellent question," I said dryly. Peter looked startled. "Was it you?" he asked Hugh. "No," said the imp. "It was Carter." "Your Christmas tree was burned down by an angel?" asked Cody. "Yup. The irony isn't lost on me
~ Richelle Mead
Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.
~ Richelle Mead
her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts.
~ Roald Dahl
A falling star was a failed star, a cinder burning in the atmosphere.
~ Robert Ferrigno
In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Like what? Mary asked. Issued for what? For not burning carbon. Started writing on the whiteboard, feeling she was oriented enough to be ready for some figures. Not equations, which might just as well be Sanskrit to her, only some numbers.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Black Creek Burning: "It was a polite, white lie, " Brie whispered. "I'll have to remember you think that way, " Nathan said.
~ R.T. Wolfe
a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which remind you there is a price to be paid in order to gain this dream in the face of a world of violence.
~ Derek Jarman
Darquesse is the sorcerer who destroys the world," Finbar said. "And I mean she levels it. I've seen cities flattened, like a nuke had gone off. Everything's burning. I see little snippets as it happens. This woman in black... Mevolent was nothing compared to this kind of evil.
~ Derek Landy
When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.
~ Adi Da
Before he'd arrived, Control had imagined himself flying free above the Southern Reach, swooping down from some remote perch to manage things. That wasn't going to happen. Already his wings were burning up and he felt more like some ponderous moaning creature trapped in the mire.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Jealousy. It burns so hot, so bright. It devours you until you're just a smoking ruin with nothing left inside. Nothing but ashes.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
From then on, the pavement of Plassans burned his feet. He was seen prowling on the promenades like a soul in pain. Then he decided suddenly, he left for Paris.
~ Émile Zola
his eyes burning with the unspeakable torture of his impotence. His hands had refused once more to produce anything clear or lifelike (45)
~ Émile Zola
You have seen flowers at morning satisfied with the dew, and those same sweet flowers at noon with their heads bowed in anguish before the mighty sun; think you these thirsty blossoms will now need nought but— dew ? No, they will cry for sunlight, and pine for the burning noon, tho' it scorches them, scathes them...
~ Emily Dickinson
I wished for you to be born a daughter though we know that daughters cannot but be born for burning like the fatal tree.
~ Erica Jong
She is the witch. You wish you were she. Except when the time comes for burning.
~ Erica Jong
My flesh began to singe as if I were a scrap of meat newly thrown onto the barbecue, and then i could hear the bubbling of my skin as the flames kissed it.
~ Andrew Davidson
In 'Legend,' I was burning with ego. In 'JJN,' I am playing someone who can die for his prestige.
~ Jagapathi Babu
A spray of burning tobacco flew into the air, followed by furious slaps and the stench of scorched wool. Once Holmes was sure he was not about to go up in flames, he turned to the driver in a fury.
~ Laurie R. King
He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.
~ Angie Sage
Now, space has its own unique smell. So whenever a vehicle docks, or if guys are out doing a spacewalk, the smell of space when you open up the hatch is very distinct. It's kind of like a burning-metal smell, if you can imagine what that would smell like.
~ Scott Kelly
The sun burned like an open sore in a sky the colour of bleached bone.
~ Robert Davis