Burned Quotes - Page 6

• He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

  Charles Frazier

  Spirit, Cold Mountain, Cases

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.

  Rick Riordan

  Smell, Scorpions, Mark

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Long, Alive

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• Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord

  Simon Van Booy

  First Love, Men, Fire

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.132, Oneworld Publications

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• I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

  Alice Sebold

  Forever, Gone, Way

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• You get burned a lot as an actor. You give somebody, you give some guy real free reign and he just doesn't know how to edit it properly. It just comes out messed up.

  Kurt Russell

  Real, Giving, Guy

  "‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Star Kurt Russell on Joining the MCU and Watching the First Movie [Interview]". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. March 24, 2017.

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• It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.

  Susane Colasanti

  Dancing, Burning, Rooms

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.170, Penguin

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• One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving Up, Glowing, Evil

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• You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Dragons, Heartless

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He could speak with any person, even the soldiers, and if there was violence in their heart he could change it. He would not have to fight, do you see? Maybe he would not be very handsome, but he would be beautiful when he spoke. He would be very kind, even if you burned his food because you were laughing and talking with your girlfriends instead of watching the cooking. He would just say, 'Ah, never mind'.

  Chris Cleave

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Heart

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Daughter, Son, Boys

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• He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Stars, Hands, Shooting

  Melissa de la Cruz (2011). “Lost In Time: Number 6 in series”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!

  David Benioff

  Home, Past, Eggs

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• I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned

  Laini Taylor

  Mountain, Rebel, Toes

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• where ther is drsire there is gonig to be a flame where there is a flame someones bound to burned just because it bruns doesn't mean your going to die you gotta get up and try, try, try

  Pink

  Mean, Flames, Trying

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• It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Emotional, Fire

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• No matter what happens, I'll always come back to you." "Promise?" I asked in a shaky voice. Logan's eyes burned with icy determination. "Promise.

  Jennifer Estep

  Determination, Eye, Voice

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Crimson Frost”, p.173, Kensington Books

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• The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

  Jim Butcher

  Lasts, Kill Me, Last Time

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.444, Penguin

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• If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Next Day, Track

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• Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hands, Coins, Pieces

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.12, Macmillan

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• When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

  Steven Erikson

  Fire, Bridges, Behind You

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.953, Random House

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• The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Ignorance, Sacrifice

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.9, Da Capo Press

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• Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Fear, Lying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

  Robert Frost

  Fire, House, Vision

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.314, Harvard University Press

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• As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Lying, Ocean, Alive

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