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And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy. — Ovid

When he died, I felt like a dark, devouring force had been stilled at last. I wore his death like wings. — Thomas H. Cook

You went through hell and lived. That leaves marks — Simon Holt

Guilt was a parasite with nasty teeth, slowly devouring his ability to find any kind of peace. — Sandra Owens

She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat. — Angela Carter

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack. — Ovid

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. — Tennessee Williams

Your heart gives you your power, Regina. Follow it, fight with it, and you cannot be defeated — Simon Holt

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps. — Edna O'Brien

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot. — John Lyly

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench. — Baha'u'llah

CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. — Ambrose Bierce

Devouring books came as naturally to us as breathing. — Haruki Murakami

In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe. — Don DeLillo

He rose up like a languid god after devouring a bountiful feast. — Paula Quinn

Fear masquerades as a "just cause" while devouring all forms of freedom and dignity. — Katy Tackes

Good.I need you to be scared.Very,very scared.And then you'll never be scared again. — Simon Holt

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Henri Bergson

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. — Jonathan Swift

Freshman year. We made it. And with only one body possession and one accidental death to our names — Simon Holt

My love for peanut butter is so deep that I can't look at a jar without devouring it! — Monica DiNatale

Lusty blacksmiths and naughty princesses. Now that's scary — Simon Holt

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage. — Honore De Balzac

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. — Wm. Paul Young

has been no one else since you. No one." His mouth was hot on my skin, devouring me. "You're all I think about, all I want. You are everything. — Penny Reid

Only the very top of the arched ceiling remained in shadow, as though some dark creature lurked there, devouring all light that strayed too close. — Miyuki Miyabe

She kisses like a sweet devouring, and I don't know where to touch her because I want all of her. — John Green

What? Quinn's one of them? I just thought he was an a*shole! — Simon Holt

[O]ne could see by his face that he was not reading but devouring, with barely any time to chew. — Anton Chekhov

All-devouring time, envious age,
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid

And before that, there was, oh, I don't know, editors experiencing demonic possessions and devouring lagging midlist writers. It's always something. — John Scalzi

And Andy, gloomy and self-devouring, sat at his desk and chewed the cud of memory. — May Sarton

Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm. — Alexander Dumas

Then love-devouring Death do what he dare. — William Shakespeare

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws. — Pyotr Kapitsa

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. — Herbert Spencer

Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor. — Ruben Papian

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. — Nikki Grimes

We want something desperately and we try to force the universe to give it up before it is ready. We want everything now. That is the devouring self. — Ruben Papian

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. — Honore De Balzac

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. — Jean-Paul Marat

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. — Dan Brown

Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks. — Madeleine L'Engle

Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was. — Mark W. Boyer

Cannibals are devouring senators. — Arlen Specter

Cause at night the sun in retreat,
Made the skyline look like crooked teeth,
In the mouth of a man who was devouring, us both. — Death Cab For Cutie