Burning Quotes - Page 35

• Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

  Richard Kadrey

  Girl, Cities, Sound

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, Book 2)”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom... I wish I could.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sadness, Long, Wish

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• that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wake Up, Alive, Waking

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• Do you want to know the closest thing to feeling the most powerful you can feel ? Flying alone at night.Risky.Nothing but you and the wind soaring way above everything , Slicing through the air like a Sword. Up and up until you feel like you can grab a star and hold it to your chest like a burning, Spiky thing

  James Patterson

  Stars, Powerful, Night

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.55, Random House

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• Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Baby, Pits, Want

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• You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fire, Ashes, Veins

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Princess, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

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• She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Stars, Loneliness

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• Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Friendship, Heart

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• It wasn’t like I made his world better. It was like I was his world. It wasn’t some explosion; it wasn’t fireworks. It was a fire, burning slowly from the inside out.

  Kiera Cass

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.

  Abbi Glines

  Mean, Bridges, Let It Go

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Stars, Butterfly, Eye

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• The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

  Tablo

  Kissing, Two, Afar

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• Each of us is born to follow a star, be it bright and shining or dark and fated. Sometimes the path of these stars will cross, bringing love or hatred. However, if you look up at the skies on a clear night, out of all the countless lights that twinkle and shine, there will come one. That star will be seen in a blaze, burning a path of light across the roof of the earth, a great comet.

  Brian Jacques

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Outcast of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall”, p.12, Penguin

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• All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Gansey

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

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• The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  School, Odds, Long

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.443, A&C Black

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• Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.

  Ally Carter

  Pain, Hot, Body

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.195, Hachette UK

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• Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Anger, Adversity, Flames

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• We are all burning in time, but each is consumed
  at his own speed.

  Jack Gilbert

  Time, Speed, Consumed

  Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.19, Knopf

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• Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.

  Louise Labe

  Time, Pain, Torches

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• The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

  John of the Cross

  Inspirational, Long, Soul

  St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.86, ICS Publications

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• Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors,
  I want burning, burning, burning.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Want, Phrases

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• We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.

  Charles Stanley

  Forgiveness, Heart, Mean

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Landmines in the Path of the Believer: Avoiding the Hidden Dangers”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life is not as idle ore,
  But iron dug from central gloom,
  And heated hot with burning fears,
  And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
  And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
  To shape and use.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Iron, Tears

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics

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• Thus at the flaming forge of life
  Our fortunes must be wrought;
  Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
  Each burning deed and thought!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Deeds, Anvils

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.37

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