Quote by Greg Grandin

“They were “galvanized iron bake ovens,” said Carl LaRue, commenting on Fordlandia’s foibles years later. “It is incredible that anyone should build a house…

— Greg Grandin

“They drove out of the driveway and onto the road, venturing forth into the horizon, spacious and empty, hanging before them blackly, and offering…

— R.J. Lawrence

“At dawn I was awake and saw that we had left everything behind except rock, and ice, and light, and the narrow road always…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Nighttime crept upon them with its frigid clutches,”

— Jaime Jo Wright

“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

“Water began to drip steadily through the dormer window. Outside, in the treacherous city, a thaw had come, giving the streets the unreliable consistency…

— Salman Rushdie

“Wake ere the burst of the great white sun     Into the blazing skies,     Our limbs are stiff and the lids…

— William Esmont

“All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the…

— Cormac McCarthy

People in hell want snowcones.

— Nora Roberts

“morning, and the season very difficult, by reason of the snow; yet there was a large and crowded assembly. They”

— Joseph Tracy

“And although, snug in your sleeping bag on a frosty night, the valley below may be bright with street lights and roads, the wind…

— Alastair Humphreys

“Men said afterward that no blacker night had ever fallen...The wind roared through the city, ripping up slates, clawing at the houses until those…

— P.C. Hodgell