Quotes About Winter

He inhabited a gray winter fog on a distant elk mountain where hunters are lost indefinitely and their own bones mark the boundaries.

Indian Song: Survival We went north to escape winter climbing pale cliffs we paused to sleep at the river. Cold water river cold from the north I sink my body in the shallow sink into sand and cold river water. …Mountain forest wind travels east and I answer: taste me, I am the wind touch me, I am the lean gray deer running on the edge of the rainbow.

Loosening his tie with one hand, Quentin stepped out into the cold clear winter air and flew.

Quentin felt cold all the time like he was trapped in his own private individual winter

Quentin could feel the martini doing its wintery work, frosting over his mind, silvering over his frontal lobes, preparing the ground for a proper hard freeze.

Yliopistoihminen: liukas ja pinnallinen, saisi paikan talvisena jalkakäytävänä.

plans are all well and good in the Summer, but in the Winter it's wise to simply have an objective.' 'I thought we were meant to make a plan and stick to it?' 'Events move fast,' he said, 'and you need on-the-hoof flexibility to ensure the plan doesn't get in the way of the goal.' It actually seemed like quite good advice.

Staying awake in the winter requires considerable pantry, a lot of luck, warm clothes, and several dozen good books.

Of all the Winter Service Industries, the Winter Consul was the most dangerous. Few who joined expected to last out the decade, yet recruitment was never much of a problem. You didn't find the job, they said, it found you. No-one ever who entered the Winter voluntarily wasn't trying to leave something behind.

You're not any of those. But I can't figure out if you're a clever person pretending to be thick, a thick person pretending to be clever, or just a chancer stumbling through the Winter without any sort of plan or thought at all.

I was learning that the Winter had a curious integrity all of its own.

at least this way I never get to be a nightwalker, lumbering around the Winter, eating beetles and curtains and people and stuff

raccoons or skunks about in the snow, but the mice, the weasels, the mink, the foxes, the shrews, the cottontail rabbits were all busier than Coney Island in July. Their tracks were all over the mountain, and their activities ranged from catching each other

The first snow sifted down silently during the night. Ayla exclaimed with delight when she stepped out of her cave in the morning. A pristine whiteness softened the contours of the familiar landscape creating a magical dreamland of fantastic shapes and mythical plants. Bushes had top hats of soft snow, conifers were dressed in new gowns of white finery, and bare exposed limbs were clothed in shining coats that outlined each twig against the deep blue sky.

For now, I had to be hard and white. In the frosty days, in the winter, the ground is white, then the sun rises,, and the frosts melt...

What's the big deal? Snow's just rain that's been left out in the cold.

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

Outdoor hockey is what it is all about.

I grew up in Finland, so it's cold in Finland, we have ice rinks outdoors.

There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why Spring is born out of Winter's laboring pain, or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer; I merely know it's true. I hurt them for that reason, and myself a little bit too.

Deep in December it's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.