Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.
A brick and a blanket could be used to replace the words yes and no. But which is witch? You’ll have to burn me at the stake before I tell you anything.
Having pretty much burned every bridge he crossed, our friendship was like a malfunction of his usually deficient people skills.
Y lentamente, de su oscuro miedo empezó a brotar algo que todavía no era felicidad, pero sí un asombro ante la diversidad de la vida.
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?
What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.
Later she would think about how he'd snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches - what was he, a ninja or something?
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.
Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.
You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.
THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
Her light was so brilliant it burned my guilty shadow onto the floor, but I was not blinded.
I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest.Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense.
She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark.
Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.
Allow your pain to cleanse you and burn away what needs to die.
Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.
