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“The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted s...”
“When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shak...”
“I wonder what freezesthe flurry of hurt on her cold-flushed cheeks, if his touch isa salve or the shattering.”
“A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as it was he stood there a long time. The color of...”
“She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.”
“The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You walk in when it is cold, and comes out when it is too hot.”
“Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.”
“On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate.”
“Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming on, the sun declining in ghastly blood-streaked splendour like a public execution across, it woul...”
“Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the col...”
“(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.”
“I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering.”
“We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who'd just smo...”
“Like memories in cold decay, Transmissions echoing away, Far from the world of you and I Where oceans bleed into the sky..”
“It is in the coldest months that hugs linger snug, and they warm the soul the most.”
“Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.”
“Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I tooShiver now, 'tis nothing new.More than I, if truth were told,Have stood and sweated hot and cold...”
“The Farmers Almanac promised a cold winter. The coldest in decades. Andrew grinned, unaware of how hideously ugly it made him. Let the winter be record breaking. The year would be marked in infamy ...”
“It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile.”
“If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.”
