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Quotes About Burn

Time is the fire in which we burn.
~ Delmore Schwartz
It was very quiet here on the mountainside, but, quiet in the of hills and forests. A quiet that wasn't silent at all, but composed of constant tiny sounds. It was small buzzing in the gorse bush nearby, of bees working the yellow flowers -dusty with pollen, far below was the rushing of the burn, a low note echoing the wind above stirring leaves and rattling twigs sighing past the jutting boulders.
~ Diana Gabaldon
So, the whole barn of psychic research must be burnt down as quickly as possible, making sure that the telepathic horses don't escape.
~ Unknown
What horror to awake at night and in the dimness see the light. Time is white mosquitoes bite I've spent my life on nothing. The thought that stings. How are you, Nothing, sitting around with Something's wife. Buzz and burn is all I learn I've spent my life on nothing. I'm pillowed and padded, pale and puffing lifting household stuffing— carpets, dishes benches, fishes I've spent my life in nothing.
~ Lorine Niedecker
Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their due so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they Starr to run out of fuel,they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.
~ Jodi Picoult
Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.
~ Jodi Picoult
My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.
~ Jodi Picoult
That meant that he'd drunk too much too early, and had popped an Alcoterm to burn it off.
~ Joe Haldeman
Don't bother coming back with an apology that would just burn. Just leave and never return.
~ Unknown
This was one of the images of his lifetime. He simply exposed his retina and let love burn her flickering, shimmering, absorbed face onto his soul.
~ Diane Setterfield
You have killed him and taken your vengeance. It is enough." "It will never be enough," he says. FOR THE FIRST TIME since my death, he falls into a fitful, trembling sleep. Achilles. I cannot bear to see you grieving. His limbs twitch and shudder. Give us both peace. Burn me and bury me. I will wait for you among the shades.
~ Madeline Miller
The only way to improve Noose's favorite courtroom was to burn it.
~ John Grisham
Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo-wee. The cotton fiel be burn to the groun before I'm through. Watch out, Jones. Don be getting yourself in no trouble. Whoa!
~ John Kennedy Toole
The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.
~ Marilyn Manson
I was too wild to feel any shame. It was true. I would not just uproot the world, but tear it, burn it, do any evil I could to keep Glaucos by my side.
~ Madeline Miller
the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light
~ Malcolm Lowry
And if you grew up with a body that only required two hours of sleep a night, a mind like an adding machine and the energy level of a ferret on a pixie stick, you had to find some way to burn off the energy, physical and mental.
~ John Ringo
From what I hear, if we're going down to the well—the cistern—we're gonna want to burn the clothes afterwards," Del said. "I'd rather burn a polyester shirt than a two-thousand-dollar Italian suit. Or three-thousand-dollar Romanian shoes." "British shoes. And when you're right, you're right.
~ John Sandford
and gives him a sheepish look as she hands them over. "Now kerosene," he says. "That lamp on your table." "Yes sir," she says, unscrewing the tank. "This is just what we need to burn away that thing. Shall we take the entire bunk outdoors? Burn it in the yard? I'm sure whichever way you choose will be the
~ Unknown
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
~ Otto Weininger
Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.
~ Marcus Sakey
You fear no inferno when you are born amidst flames.It's another flesh wound, another lasting burn.Carry them with you.
~ Renee Ruin, Wounds: Volume 1
Seven smirked as he walked back over to me. "I gave you catharsis last night. Twice.
~ Unknown