Burn Quotes
1457 quotes by 1009 authors
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Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?
— MaryJanice Davidson
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I didn’t say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didn’t say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar rugs again I’ll…
— Karen Marie Moning
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If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it…
— Chris Adrian
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Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone…
— Anna Godbersen
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For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of…
— John Cheever
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In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.
— Egon Schiele
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I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream.…
— Alice Hoffman
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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make…
— Oscar Wilde
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You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon…
— Thomas Hardy
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I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again…
— Isaac Marion
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That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk.…
— David Benioff
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If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame…
— Joe Dunthorne
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This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.
— Libba Bray
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Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint…
— Grant Morrison
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You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual…
— Haruki Murakami
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Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other…
— Shana Abe
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It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or…
— Meg Rosoff
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Feelings, emotions - they are neither right nor wrong. They cannot be assigned a value. Feelings *are*. By labeling a feeling wrong, you force yourself…
— Karen Marie Moning
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