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Quotes About Winter

That's … complicated and devious," Qibli said. "Congratulations, you've just summed up NightWings," Winter said to him.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
ground with his talons. Winter and Peril were still hovering in
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Do you remember anything about Winter?" he asked. "You mean, like that he's an enormous grump?" Pyrite said. She
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Therefore, we are obligated to adjust his ranking accordingly. All present advisors have been consulted, and by general agreement, we are slotting my other son, Winter, into first place in the rankings.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Winter glanced over at Cirrus again and found him glaring at Moon and Kinkajou
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Winter — I want to go home.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
There's something about Cape kids. Maybe it's the constant drumbeat of the ocean, like a clock reminding them how short the time is, or maybe it's just the loneliness of the long winters . . . but they party more than anyone else.
~ Unknown
Sunset is such a sad hour," she said, presently. "If I watch the end of a day—any day—I always feel it's the end of a whole epoch. And the autumn! It might as well be the end of everything," he said. "That's why I hate cold countries, and love the warm ones, where there's no winter, and when night comes you feel an opening up of the life there, instead of a closing down. Don't you feel that?
~ Paul Bowles
and bacon rind they've set in store / against our winter wants
~ Paul Muldoon
January snow lay thick on the ground—crusty, pitted, and hardened, some of it like the bubbly honeycomb of air-dried sea foam in the tide wrack down at the beach, the sort of snow that stays so long you get used to the intrusion of that world of uninvited white, a hooded subverted landscape, sparkling in the low flame of a sallow sunrise on a winter morning.
~ Paul Theroux
the way a backyard might look from a high window in the deep of winter: a skeleton of the world, a tract of abandonment, objects dead and obsolete.
~ Paul Theroux
Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away in moist clouds. This was the smoke of her internal fire and her soul. Every breath was a letter to the world. These she mailed into the cold air leaning back with pursed lips to send it upward.
~ Paulette Jiles
Y es que el invierno, la estación más desnuda del año, revela las carencias y pesares de un país que creyó haber superado la fonola tercermundista, un país narciso que se mira la nariz en los espejos de los edificios, un país que se piensa modelo de triunfo, y al menor desastre, al menor descuido, la indomable naturaleza manda guarda abajo el encatrado del éxito.
~ Unknown
I don't know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.
~ Gene Logsdon
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
~ Mason Cooley
Winter brings a colder palette with more heavy blue and violet, Fall has substantial more reddish and brown, Summer brings a variation of pastel colours and Spring fresh green and tangerine.
~ Siren Waroe
the colonists in Jamestown perished. Of the five hundred who entered the winter, only sixty were alive by March. The situation was so desperate that they resorted to cannibalism.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Of the five hundred who entered the winter, only sixty were alive by March. The situation was so desperate that they resorted to cannibalism.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Later that day, shortly before the sun sank in the wintry sky, despite the best efforts of the medics, Arra Sails closed her eyes, made peace with the gods of the vampires, breathed her last...and died.
~ Darren Shan
AS YOU ARE AWARE, EACH YEAR THE U.S. SURGEON General emerges from relative obscurity into the limelight of public attention and if he sees his shadow, we have six more weeks of winter.
~ Dave Barry
Through the smal tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.
~ Dave Eggers
flake hit the sidewalk and then melted almost immediately. Lancaster
~ David Baldacci
in winter's watered-down light—just
~ David Foster Wallace
Full soft he lay his love beside; But dark are the days of wintertide.
~ William Morris