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Quotes About Ice

I started traveling in the Arctic in 1991, so I experienced the ice in winter and spring. The seasonal sea ice, it has a long season. It starts in September and ends in June.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.
~ J. J. Watt
The eyes were large and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.
~ Ross Thomas
The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.
~ Ross Thomas
April splinters like an ice palace.
~ Ruth Stone
A little ahead was a shop burnt in the riots. A man now sat inside with two large slabs of ice on the floor. A thought came to me: 'At last the poor shop has the chance to cool itself.
~ Saadat Hasan Manto
Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.
~ Margaret Atwood
There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.
~ Margaret Atwood
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.
~ Margaret Atwood
The freezing rain sifts down, handfuls of shining rice thrown by some unseen celebrant. Wherever it hits, it crystallizes into a granulated coating of ice.
~ Margaret Atwood
Solitude! How do we picture it? A man alone on a raft in the midst of a boundless sea. A figure against a graying sky, with chasms beneath and ice peaks above. Such a derelict between life and death I felt myself to be
~ Anna Katharine Green
In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.
~ Anne Bronte
Stay icy, Tally-wa
~ Scott Westerfeld
They have demons on Antarctica?" "Yeah," Ash breathed. "It wasn't always covered by ice, that was just a precaution when they buried them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So what are you two doing here this early anyway? Bubba asked, changing the subject. Don't you have football practise? Nick let loose an evil laugh. It ended early. Stone cracked the coach's wee-belows with a badly thrown ball. I'm sure we'll all be running laps for hours tomorrow. But today... Coach had to go ice himself. Bubba and Mark sucked their breaths in sharply. That'll ruin his weekend. Yeah, and then some, Caleb added.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
~ Douglas Coupland
Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.
~ John Egerton
snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...
~ John Geddes
that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...
~ John Geddes
Hollis uses a TikTok hack to arrange the flowers: She crosshatches tape across the top of the vase so the flowers stand up straight, and she adds vinegar, sugar, and ice to the water to keep the flowers fresh.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
I start to run down the hill, but did I mention I can't feel my feet? They slip out from under me. I tumble head over heels, down, down, down until I splash into a stream. The icy water soaks through my clothes and bites into my skin. Why couldn't Elsa have had warm magical powers?
~ Elise Allen
For now, Rien could distract herself with the texture of an alien night and the cold trees, ice and snow and the stars smeared behind a frosty sky.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She reached into the shadows, groping toward Morgan's cottage, and felt as if her fingers brushed slick, opaque ice.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Familiar ice stiffened Garrett's spine, and she let it freeze her professional smile on her face.
~ Elizabeth Bear