a heat QUOTES

1 " Truth.
It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.
Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling. "

― Kathryn Stockett , The Help

2 " I heard from clear across the city, over the Hudson in the Jersey yards, one fierce whistle of a locomotive which took me to a train late at night hurling through the middle of the West, its iron shriek blighting the darkness. One hundred years before, some first trains had torn through the prairie and their warning had congealed the nerve. " Beware," said the sound. " Freeze in your route. Behind this machine comes a century of maniacs and a heat which looks to consume the earth." What a rustling those first animals must have known. "

3 " In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities. "

― Brenna Yovanoff

4 " When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight. "

5 " He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflecting in my own. "

― Amanda Hocking , Freeks

6 " He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room. "

― Patricia Highsmith , The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)

7 " I’m clenching my fists so tight my fingernails leave red crescent moons on my skin. I feel a surge, a heat roar up inside me. As bad as I’m hurting now, he’ll hurt ten times worse. That’s the only thing that keeps me going. "

― Jenny Han , Fire with Fire (Burn for Burn, #2)

8 " Years from now, I will pass this same park, and I won’t remember any of this.
Instead, I will feel something like a spark— a heat like August
in a suburban town,
and a desire to grow
even when I know I’ll be cut down. "

― Kris Kidd , Down for Whatever

9 " Laura, this isn't love. Love lets you go on a trip without following you. Love can live without you for a week, knowing you'll come back.'

'No, it can't.' The afternoon shadows grew long and cold. In spite of the chill, a heat rose up inside her and flooded her face. 'That's how you know it's true love. When he can't live without you.'

Karen shook her head. 'That's how you know it's obsession. Or something else. "

― M.R. Carey , The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)