Burning Like Quote by Honoré de Balzac

“…she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust…

— John Hersey

“She felt like a speck of sand in an alien land, confused as to how it had gotten there.”

— Hugh Howey

“She lifted the girl's shirt, showing her ribs and the pointy bumps of her spine. They were like the bones of some animal who'd…

— Amy Goldman Koss

“Sand And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it had shattered and is shattering still.…

— Han Kang

“Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone.”

— Chuck Wendig

“...a dangerous heat came off of her, murky and wild, like a swamp.”

— Rebecca Barry

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh

“She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She…

— Adam Foulds

“It's where she belongs, she craves the caress of the violent shore, to come alive like that once more in a clash of stone…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.”

— Hilary Mantel

“She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted…

— Robert Jordan