Why are old maps always burnt?

“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold…

— Cormac McCarthy

“You tried to so hard to forget me; you burnt the letters I made. Though my memory has been dying, I hope the feeling…

— Joshua James

It was love at first sight. Until reality struck like lightning and burnt up everything leaving me with nothing but scars.

— Anonymous

A burnt dog dreads the fire.

— Willa Cather

“None of these is in line with your original ideal of using the alien civilization as a way to reform humanity. YE: I started…

— Liu Cixin

“A burnt broom that has had enough, and refuses to burn further...”

— Gregory Maguire

“We burnt the salt and the herbs (in America it is correct to drop the h in herbs---it does sound odd.)”

— Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

“Moth to a flame. Somehow we both got burnt.”

— Teresa Mummert

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

— Anais Nin

The girl is lost ;she is burnt flesh.

— Fad Ibra

A burnt child dreads the fair.

— Sreenadh

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

— Joan of Arc

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because…

— Marc Maron

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In black Cataracts wouldn't whitewash away. Her filthy smoke stack she burnt me like a furnace for my future suicide.

— Cradle Of Filth