Searing Quotes

33 Searing quotes by 32 unique authors

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs. — Catharine MacKinnon
Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always… — Todd McFarlane
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute… — Patricia J. Williams
We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing… — Joko Beck
Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do… — E. J. Dionne
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well,… — Raquel Cepeda
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities… — Donna J. Haraway
Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color… — Alex Webb
Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn… — Unknown Author
The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves,… — Hal Porter
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on… — P.J. O'Rourke
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial… — Aberjhani
The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing… — Frederick Lenz
Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride. — Lou Reed
Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most… — Mira Bartok
You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the… — Libba Bray
How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and… — Dick Francis
I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it,… — Lisa Kleypas
Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with… — Vera Nazarian
How does this whole guardian angel business work? Am I the only person who can see you? I mean, are you invisible to everyone else?"… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion, you… — Candace Bushnell
She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look… — Ann Brashares
For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a… — Stephenie Meyer
It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate,… — Lisa Kleypas
I'm already waiting when Puck gets to the top of the cliffs. I'm not the only one; about two dozen race tourists have made perches… — Maggie Stiefvater

Who Wrote These Searing Quotes

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