Afternoon Quote by Ardyth Kennelly

“Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordless howl burst from his throat. His…

— David Weber

“Ruddy hell, the cold smacked my face with an iron spade! Now I knew why northerners go in for beards, woad, and body grease.”

— David Mitchell

“The pale sword came shivering through the air”

— George R.R. Martin

“It was dusk - winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay…

— Joan Aiken

“Winter came in days that were gray and still. They were the kind of days in which people locked in their animals and themselves…

— Mildred D. Taylor

“It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean,…

— Herman Melville

“rare frost that morning, the wind howling”

— Colson Whitehead

“In the country, a good he-snowstorm makes a lovely design for putting on a holiday greetings card. In the city it just makes an…

— Irvin S. Cobb

“Meanwhile the colonel followed the mad woman, and by a strange effect of the superexcitation of his senses, saw her in the darkness, through…

— Erckmann-Chatrian

“It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales;”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans…

— Walter Scott

“But at the end of February, out of a cold black north a dozen meandering snowflakes fell. They drifted about the air like thrums…

— Nan Shepherd