Cold weather Quote by Boris Pasternak

“In the peace of winter’s chill, I stacked firewood to fuel a stove that kept me warm. And I thought about how doing something…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He wanted to sink down and hug the coals to his chest. Flamboyant...coins of light...oil, wood, tatters...fumes from acids, soap, smoke...the sunlight shattered.”

— William H. Gass

“In the beginning I gave you paper for books, fruits for food, roots, bark and leaves for medicine, and I gave you shelter from…

— Paul Bamikole

“The house had not merely lapsed back into the equilibrium of the woods but was blighted, as if inside it did not contain a…

— Paul Harding

“Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of fire, for…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Begun in fire, ending in ice. The poet was wrong; ice was a better destroyer than fire, particularly if you were in the mood…

— Dana Stabenow

“Some people were like pottery. They had been tested in a fire just hot enough to make them capable, but perhaps not durable.”

— Heather Burch

“When you visualized the future and conjured up a world where urban life had spread everywhere and man had achieved his long-desired symbiosis with…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his…

— William H. Gass

“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing…

— Mark Haddon

“We smelted our ideals under great heat and pressure until the soft parts burned away, and what emerged was a tempered frame rigid enough…

— Isaac Marion

“He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire.”

— Daniel Alarcón