Burning Quotes - Page 33

• They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grins at me. "And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mean, Cliffs, Sean

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.310, Scholastic UK

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• At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Kissing, Fire

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.543, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke and pine needles. I smell the stables. I smell Hodor laughing, and Jon and Robb battling in the yard, and Sansa singing about some stupid lady fair. I smell the crypts where the stone kings sit. I smell hot bread baking. I smell the godswood. I smell my wolf. I smell her fur, almost as if she were still beside me. "I don't smell anything," she said.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Children, Stupid

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• This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.

  Amanda Hocking

  Fire, Two, Zombie

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• 'Will,' she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. 'Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.'

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Hair, Hands

  "Clockwork Prince". Book by Cassandra Clare, 2011.

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• She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

  Holly Black

  Falling In Love, Sky, Crowns

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart: The Curse Workers”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.

  J.R. Ward

  Loyalty, Wrath, Zsadist

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.444, Penguin

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• I had just lot my best friend, barely escaped having my life sucked out by a psychotic burning girl, committed treason and nearly gotten the guy I liked killed by a crazy faerie. What were hairy legs compared to that?

  Kiersten White

  Girl, Crazy, Guy

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• Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ozone, Air, Water

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• A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lonely, Snow, Silence

  Heinrich Heine (1887). “Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine”, London : W. Scott

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• The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

  Richard Peck

  Writing, Light, Bridges

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• But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Misery, Feels, Felt

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.267, Collector's Library

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• In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over—a shared love of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painful pleasure of burning Marks, the thought-numbing swiftness of battle. When Alec had wanted to go out hunting alone with Jace, leaving Izzy behind, Jace had spoken up for her: “We need her with us; she’s the best there is. Aside from me, of course.” She had loved him just for that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hunting, Leaving, Battle

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I am Belial, for having seen the Rose upon thy breast, I have denied God. And I am Satan! I am Satan! I am cast out upon a burning crag! And the sea boils about the desolation thereof. And already the vultures gather, and feast upon my flesh.

  Aleister Crowley

  Air, Sea, Rose

  Aleister Crowley (2012). “The Best of the Equinox, Enochian Magic”, p.141, Weiser Books

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• Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil.

  Brian Jacques

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• She turned to him, her cheeks burning red. “What is this? Vampire porn?” “Yep.” “Oh, and this is a good one. Muffy the Vampire Layer.

  Larissa Ione

  Vampire, Layers, Red

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• His lips hovered over hers. “No,” he snarled. Madison wasn’t sure to whom he was talking, but then his mouth was crushing hers, and her world became him—the touch and feel of his lips pressing down, forcing hers to respond. It wasn’t a gentle kiss or a sweet exploration. It was angry and raw, breathtaking and soul burning. Right now, she didn’t want gentle. She wanted hard and fast, him and her, on the floor, even the bear rug, both of them naked and sweating.

  J. Lynn

  Crush, Sweet, Kissing

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• He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

  Voltaire

  Grace, Distraction, Charm

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

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• little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Running, Dog

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.308, Zondervan

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• ...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn’t need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick

  Margaret Haddix

  Fire, Games, Play

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Among the Brave”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dad, Punishment

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• Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.84, Penguin

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• He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Long, Skins, Stuff

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.5, Hamilton Books

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• I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kissing, Long, Arms

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• In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

  John Green

  Cute, Baby, Reading

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

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