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Quotes About Cold

I love Canada. I miss the heat of India, the food, the house lizards on the walls, the musicals on the silver screen, the cows wandering on the streets, the crows cawing, even the talk of cricket matches, but I love Canada. It's a country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
~ Yann Martel
The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul.
~ Clarice Lispector
That's the bruise in the heart the ice in the heart was meant to ice.
~ Claudia Rankine
That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice.
~ Claudia Rankine
Raised in the hot sun, my idea of romance was to feel cold. North was a thrilling word to me. Balzac said that a novel should send the reader into another country. My dreams were like that. They still are.
~ Clive James
Her nature is like a demonstrative cat's; she is delicate, acutely sensitive to cold, and incredibly caressing in her ways.
~ Colette
The room was cold as the grave.
~ Colin Dexter
Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
~ Hermann Hesse
I was all wrapped up, the streetlamps and lighted windows were glittering, the frost bit into our faces, our lips felt like frozen crusts of bread, our cheeks as smooth and cold as porcelain. Sky and street were nothing but snow, we were driving into a great big snowball.
~ Herta Muller
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside which is like the cold of space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
~ Hilaire Belloc
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
~ Hilaire Belloc
To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, and blacker than a tax collector's heart. A sane man would have been curled up in front of a fire with a cup of mulled wine and a good boo-, ah, a willing wench.
~ Hilari Bell
There are some strange cold people in this world. It is priests, I think...Training themselves out of natural feeling. They mean it for the best, of course.
~ Hilary Mantel
What was England, before Wolsey? A little offshore island, poor and cold.
~ Hilary Mantel
I, he thinks, who am so soiled in life's battle, so seamed and scarred, so numb, so unwanted, so cold.
~ Hilary Mantel
Nothing hurts, or perhaps it's that everything hurts, because there is no separate pain that he can pick out. But the cold strikes him, just in one place: just through his cheekbone as it rests on the cobbles.
~ Hilary Mantel
But when the sun drops closer to the earth, the cold of the earth runs to it from the water and causes all green things to dry up. And because the sun has dropped closer to the earth, the days are short, and it is winter.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Hermes, dear Hermes, Maia's son from Kyllene, I pray to you, for I'm frozen and I shiver. Give Hipponax a woolen overcoat, a Persian cape, some sandals and felt slippers, and sixty gold staters for his inner wall. Give Hipponax a woolen overcoat. I tell you, his teeth are rattling in his head! But from you never even a shabby coat against the very cold or slippers to keep my toes from freezing.
~ Unknown
Och snön, den föll och föll.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
Everything died in the Ice Citadel, but hope died first.
~ Holly Black
Let our King be made from ice. He wished it too, wished for the ice that encased the branches out on the hill to freeze his heart.
~ Holly Black
If one of the people who'd gone Cold drank human blood, the infection mutated. It killed the host and then raised them back up again, Colder than before. Cold through and through, forever and ever.
~ Holly Black
You know, until this trip, I thought I liked the cold. One can dress extravagantly when there's no risk of sweating- brocades, gold trims, hats. But I am reevaluating.' ... I roll my eyes. 'You have an understated elegance, so no need to worry about weather.
~ Holly Black