Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.
Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.
A dog to vomit does turn, A fool to folly but return, The wise err and learn, Gaining from each burn.
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.
I think to myself: I don't want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage
Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.
To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.
…he’d assumed their relationship would go on forever. It was going on now, but in another way, like the rearrangement of the stars, which were all still in the sky, just burning in unexpected places.
I’m hard to love, but I love hard, like my heart is the sun yearning to tan your naked body. I promise I won’t burn you.
People are like books. You can either read them, or you can burn them. But before I try to read you, I’ve got to ask, Are you a heretic?
God created the heavens, while the devil created doubt. Here is a short list of Lucifer's other notable inventions: matches, the lighter, the flamethrower, and George Burns.
If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.
I’m up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I’m tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
The burning red taste of blood floods my mouth. The sparkle of life sprays out of his cells like citrus mist from an orange peel, and I suck it in.
You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.
There was something of Francis in the boy, something pure and genuine and flawed. That type didn't think twice before running headlong into a burning house or a young girl's arms.
Basically, dating is like climbing a volcano and you never know when it’s going to erupt, dumping molten lava and burning you
I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'
Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn." [ ]
