Famous quotes containing the words burnt and/or alive:
“To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion—far less by the white fire of love.”
—Mary Webb (1881–1927)
“For we saw him throw to the swift flood
A girl alive with his hooks through her lips....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)