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Quotes About Cold

The darkness was crisp, as though scraped of sight and smell by winter's razor.
~ R. Scott Bakker
I'd like to dive into an enormous pool of iced tea," Kris said, "like in the TV commercials. It always looks so cold and refreshing.
~ R.L. Stine
Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!" Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. "I swear, I'm going to start taking my clothes off!" The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. "Chicken," she said, and paced the room, back and forth.
~ Rachel Caine
Myrnin was—for a vampire who looked about twice her age, but was thousands of years older than that—pretty hot. He could be sweet and affectionate one minute, cold and predatory the next, and that kept her from having any kind of crush on him, mostly. Truth was that he'd make a terrible, possibly fatal boyfriend.
~ Rachel Caine
She'd been wrong to think the universe cold, and only the human heart driven by desire. The universe itself was built of naught but desire, and desire was its sole living god.
~ Rachel Kadish
The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.
~ Dean Koontz
Life was like the ice on an early-winter pond: more fragile than it appeared to be, riddled by hidden fractures, with a cold darkness below.
~ Dean Koontz
Amalia insisted he wasn't cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated.
~ Dean Koontz
I've always loved catching snow on my eyelashes.
~ Debbie Macomber
We parked under a strange sky with a faint image of a quarter-moon superimposed on it. There was a little woods beside us. This day had been dry out and hot, the buck pines and what-all simmering patientyl, but as we sat there smoking cigarettes it started to get very cold. The summer's over, I said.
~ Denis Johnson
January is the despairing heart of the Scottish winter
~ Denise Mina
she was forced to face how cold and unlike her fantasy her own marriage was? Or did she suddenly just get tired of living this long-ass life?" Joella
~ Dennis Lehane
It's a big formless, arctic night, the stars so bright they seem to hiss. I walk with my hands in pockets, arms pressed to my sides. Even in my down parka, the cold is still there. I feel as though my blood is crackling in it, my bones conducting cold like wires. My toes are curled in their boots.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
He reached forward then took me in his arms, held me close for a moment, the breath of snow and ashes cold around us. Then he kissed me, released me, and I took a deep breath of cold air, harsh with the scent of burning.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The night was cold, and very quiet, as though we were the only two souls in the world.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He reached forward then and took me in his arms, held me close for a moment, the breath of snow and ashes cold around us. Then he kissed me, released me, and I took a deep breath of cold air, harsh with the scent of burning.
~ Diana Gabaldon
the chill. Grant's nose was
~ Diana Gabaldon
the cold was somehow touched with life, a freshness moving through the icy air.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ye wouldna linger to smell flowers when ye think your shit might turn to ice before ye've got it all the way out.
~ Diana Gabaldon
My hands were cold, and I felt slightly sick. What in the name of God was going on? The Governor's shock at learning that I was Jamie's wife was now at least partially explained; that one glimpse of unguarded, painful yearning had told me exactly how matters stood on his side. Jamie was another question altogether.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.
~ Charlie White
The cold cut like a many bladed knife
~ Israel Zangwill
Cold has a thousand ways of moving in the world: on the sea it gallops like a troop of horses, on the countryside it falls like a swarm of locusts, in the cities like a knife-blade it slashes the streets and penetrates the chinks of unheated houses.
~ Italo Calvino
A me – dice – piacciono i libri in cui tutti i misteri e le angosce passano attraverso una mente esatta e fredda e senza ombre come quella d'un giocatore di scacchi.
~ Italo Calvino