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Quotes About Burning

A pentagram is burning in your eyes and soft, pale twists of wolfbane squeeze your heart. A grinding pain is writhing in your thighs the crunch of bones proclaims the changes start.
~ Annette Curtis Klause
Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face white from a nights' carouse.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The kiss, which had more pressure than feeling behind it, produced that extra surge of adrenalin in the girl that enables one to carry a packed trunk out of a burning house, but in her, the power went at once to the brain.
~ Flannery O'Connor
'Mulk' is a story of a Muslim family whose one member turns out to be a terrorist. How that family gets cornered and persecuted after that in our society is what it is all about. I have tried to deal with some of the burning issues of our times.
~ Anubhav Sinha
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
He fantasized about burning his fraying vestments when he finally reached home.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
These consecrated ones, by their lifestyles and anointings, shook people out of their complacency and confronted the religious status quo with a burning zeal for the name and fame of God.
~ Lou Engle
There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye.
~ Russell T. Davies
The War was not really a Battle It was a single Instant of Doing They became two Golden Suns Goddess and Woman Flaming, blinding, burning Utterly consuming the Enemy In their fire.
~ Salman Rushdie
He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.
~ J.R. Ward
Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire.
~ Chris Cannon
In democratic times, enjoyment is keener than in aristocratic centuries, and above all the number of those who taste it is infinitely greater; but on the other hand, one must recognize that hopes and desires are more often disappointed, souls more arouse and more restive, and cares more burning.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I just stored up my hurts, as if they were a tower made of fallen stars, invisible to most people, but brightly burning inside of me.
~ Alice Hoffman
No one called out my name. Finally, I went to open the door. I could smell burning metal.
~ Alice Hoffman
I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a wisp of smoke, a burning ember.
~ Alice Hoffman
The garden was burning, the air sparked with specks of flame as they say it will be in the World-to-Come when we walk beside the angels and have no fear of their illuminations or of their might.
~ Alice Hoffman
A woman alone who could read and write was suspect. Words were magic. Books were not to be trusted. What men could not understand, they wished to burn.
~ Alice Hoffman
Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night
~ Allen Ginsberg
that blue flame burnning? Industry!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Par là-dessus, un grand soleil féroce qui faisait
~ Alphonse Daudet
Gratitude is like spring blooms, fine-smelling but short-lived. I'd keep a torch burning, d'you see, somewhere it brings to mind cities aflame. Make sure they stay grateful.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Harper Grayson had seen lots of people burn on TV, everyone had, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school. Schools
~ Joe Hill
Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying speed to a far corner of the night. In the dark hours before sunrise, constellations came apart and reformed and fell in burning streaks.
~ Joe Hill
In the distance, she could hear the congregation roaring the Talking Heads, bellowing about the sweet release of burning it all down.
~ Joe Hill