Burned Quotes

“Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite”
― P.C. Cast

“Light always underestimates the viciousness of Darkness”
― P.C. Cast, Burned

“and everything burned in blue, everything a star”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things.”
― P.C. Cast, Burned

“Ardet nec consumitur," Melina said. "Burned but not destroyed.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.”
― P.C. Cast, Burned

“Life isn't worth living if you're scared all the time.
-Jordan”
― Sara Shepard, Burned

“You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, or the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who could crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.”
― Ellen Hopkins

“I drag the body out into the snowdrifts, as far away from our shack as I can muster. I put her in a thicket of trees, where the green seems to still have a voice in the branches, and try not to think about the beasts that’ll soon be gathering. There’s no way of burying her; the ground is a solid rock of ice beneath us.

I kneel beside her and want desperately to weep. My throat tightens and my head aches. Everything hurts inside. But I have no way of releasing it. I’m locked up and hard as stone.

“I’m sorry, Mamma,” I whisper to the shell in front of me. I take her hand. It could belong to a glass doll. There’s no life there anymore.

So I gather rocks, one by one, and set them over her, trying my best to protect her from the birds, the beasts, keep her safe as much as I can now. I pile the dark stones gently on her stomach, her arms, and over her face, until she becomes one with the mountain.

I stand and study my work, feeling like the rocks are on me instead, then I leave the body for the forest and ice.”
― Rachel A. Marks, Winter Rose

“She's fire...but she will not burn you. She knows all too well how it feels to live with ashes.”
― Alfa

“No, Zoey."
Heat sounded pissed.
It's not okay here. Not for you."

Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.”
― P.C. Cast

“Far from putting doubts and anxieties to rest religion often has the effect of intensifying them. It judges those who profess the faith more harshly than it judges unbelievers. It holds them up to a standard of conduct so demanding that many of them inevitably fall short. It has no patience with those who make excuses for themselves--an art in which Americans have come to excel. If it is ultimately forgiving of human weakness and folly, it is not because it ignores them or attributes them exclusively to unbelievers. For those who take religion seriously, belief is a burden, not a self-righteous claim to some privileged moral status. Self-righteousness, indeed, may well be more prevalent among skeptics than among believers. The spiritual discipline against self-righteousness is the very essence of religion.”
― Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

“We never burned right.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol. All who worship him are abominable idolaters and Christ did not rise again from death to life nor did he ascend into heaven.”
― Matthew Hammond

“...I managed to make it clear that what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured me; I was like a piece of meat that is burned on one side and raw on the other, and it was on the raw side I needed to work,. I thanked her, as well as I could, for what she had done for me.”
― Robertson Davies, Fifth Business

“I never burned any bridges but they all collapsed from the weight of my sadness.”
― Nitya Prakash

“If you mess with dragons, you will get burned. Don’t say no one warned you.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Hunter’s dead,” Taylor said without preamble. “It was these . . . these things. They came crawling up out of him and were eating him, oh God, I mean, it was like . . . I mean he was crying and Dekka prayed with him and he tried to fry his own brain just like he did with Harry only I guess it didn’t work, I guess he couldn’t do it, so Sam . . .” She swallowed. “Anyone have some water?”
“What about Sam?” Astrid demanded.
“He did it for him. Sam. I mean, he . . . Hunter was, you know . . . so Sam.” She pantomimed raising her hands, like Sam, like he would do when using his power.
Astrid closed her eyes and crossed herself.
“Rest in peace,” Edilio said and crossed himself as well.
“Sam burned the boy?” Howard asked. Then, bitterly sarcastic said, “Yeah, you all pray to Jesus. Because Jesus is really providing a lot of help here. Sounds to me like Sam was the one doing what had to be done.”
― Michael Grant, Plague

“Sam sent me to give you a message, Edilio. He said, ‘Tell Edilio I couldn’t kill the bugs.’”
“The things that came out of Hunter?” Howard asked.
Taylor closed her eyes. Tears squeezed out and rolled down her cheeks. “Yes. The things that came out of Hunter. Sam shot them, you know, with his light. But they’re like, reflective or whatever. Anyway, it didn’t kill them.”
― Michael Grant, Plague

“The sand boiled the moment
the sun burned over the horizon.”
― Jazz Feylynn

“The smell of smoke lingered in the air, indicating something had burned. There was also a hint of barbecue meat combined with rotten meat.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“My mind and body burned out three decades earlier than normal because I worked in the biologically toxic field of high altitude astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“If you mess with Magee, expect to get burned.”
― Steven Magee

“If the demons had made this world their Hell, then let them have it. All you could do was try to not get burned.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“I was working in the space industry in Hawaii when the second space shuttle burned up on reentry.”
― Steven Magee

“Have you seen the burned man?”
― J.R. Potts, Visitor on The Mountain

“She held the bottle to her lips and tilted, slightly. It tasted the like how she'd imagine dirt would taste if someone burned it on the grill. Nope she said, and handed the bottle back.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

“Procrastination is the fire where great dreams go to burn.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“So you will blame me for her malaria? As others blame me for my husband's death - how very familiar. I cannot be permitted to make my own choices, as Natalie cannot either, but I am somehow to blame for the choices of others. What tremendous power I seem to have! But certain things are out of my hands, Sir Adam, and one of them is whether Natalie will even live to be sent home. I suggest you search your heart and find the decency to leave the matter of her disposition until after we know the answer to that question.”
― Marie Brennan, The Tropic of Serpents

“When stamping out a fire, be sure you are not wearing wooden shoes.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light