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“Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.”
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“Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.22, 1895.
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“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
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“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.”
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“I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.”
Source : The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
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“Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!”
Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “Adventure”
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“Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.”
Source : Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”
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“The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.”
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“Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.”
