Burning Paper Quotes

#1. Wind comes in, your candle tips over and flares up, and a loose tent-flap catches fire, and through the widening black-edged gap you can see the eyes of the howlers, red and shining in the light from your burning paper shelter, but you keep on writing anyway because what else can you do?

Margaret Atwood

#2. I think my underwear is curling off me like burning paper.

Sally Thorne

#3. The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. He claimed my lips as if he were laying claim to my body, to my soul, and every part of me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. The hungry kid smiles, as though the cascade of waste paper is a firework display. She squints into the sun to follow them as they fly.

M.R. Carey

#6. When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that's when you have some power over it. That's the first step. Otherwise you're just withering away, you're like a burning piece of paper getting smaller and smaller.

Ryan Montgomery

#7. The backs of his hands remind him of paper burning in the fireplace, the moment the taut membrane goes slack into a thousand wrinkles, just before it withers to ash and air.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.

Kabir Sehgal

#9. The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books.

Neil Gaiman

#10. The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I'll have traveling the world and meeting new people, especially fans of Nando's

Christopher Poole

#11. All those poeple living in their paper houses, burning they paper future to stay warm. All the paper kids, drinking paper beer some bum bought for them at the paper convienience store ... All this things paper-thin and paper-frail.

John Green

#12. As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point to set fire to the human spirit.

Thomas Merton

#13. 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.

Jessica Day George

#14. I get the feeling that you like pointing me in the wrong direction.

Sarah Addison Allen

#15. Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

Leon Wieseltier

#16. Your thinking creates your reality.

Robin Sharma

#17. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

John Green

#18. She had been a great lady, wise and gracious and happy.

C.S. Lewis

#19. If you're not passionate about what you want to do, you won't be good at it.

Sid Haig

#20. Look, I tried to get a paper route instead, but the newspapers keep burning up on reentry.

Steven Gould

#21. For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

Karl Lagerfeld

#22. I felt the heat of the fire and heard the screams. I needed to use moisturiser for days afterwards.

Kirkland Ciccone

#23. In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#24. Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?

Daniel Berrigan

#25. Nothing scares me but God.

Lil' Wayne

#26. You broke into Drumindor?" Wyatt looked impressed. "I thought that was impossible."
"Just about," Royce answered, "and we didn't get paid enough for the trouble it gave me."
Hadrian snorted, "You? I was the one who nearly died making that leap. You just hung there and laughed.

Michael J. Sullivan

#27. People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

Daniel Yergin

#28. One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry - and that's where problems set in!

John Byrne

#29. Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

Jane Brody

#30. The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Markus Zusak

#31. Does he not feel the fire between his body and mine? Is that all me? How can it be all me? It feels like a flat sun trapped between us---pressed like a flower between the pages of a thick book, burning the paper." --Melanie

Stephenie Meyer