Immolating Quotes

#1. I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.

Dave Eggers

#2. Brenna Kelly, meet Alice Price-Healy. Grandma, meet Breanna. No one is shooting, stabbing or immolating anyone in this hotel room."
"Please," added Dominic. "I have to sleep here."
"HAIL!" Rejoiced the mice. "HAIL THE LACK OF STABBING, SHOOTING AND FLAME!

Seanan McGuire

#3. Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective - even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Jeff VanderMeer

#4. Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

Lilly Singh

#5. He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.

Cassandra Clare

#6. I never got my Hogwarts letter. - Deanna H.

Rachel Fershleiser

#7. I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

Don DeLillo

#8. We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

Gayle Rubin

#9. I do not allow others to influence my thinking unless it is positive or uplifting.

Louise Hay

#10. I got poked in the left eye on the collision. My vision is blurry in that eye. I had to play. It was for coach, and because it was a district game.

George H. W. Bush

#11. You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.

Charlie Jane Anders