The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to…

“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