Burn Quotes

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She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years. — J.M.G. Le ClÃ©zio
... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books… — Bohumil Hrabal
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores… — Elizabeth McCracken
Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally. — R A Salvatore
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present? — Chuck Palahniuk
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite. — Robert A. Heinlein
So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously… — Elizabeth Cunningham
Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But… — Lev Grossman
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents… — Augusten Burroughs
I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away… — Jodi Picoult
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up… — Karen Hesse
Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to… — Christopher McDougall
Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for… — Cassandra Clare
I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss… — Alice Sebold
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a… — Henry David Thoreau
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me,… — John Donne
I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As… — Dave Pelzer

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