Afternoon Quote by Ralph Ellison

I remember that winter because it had brought the heaviest snows I had ever seen. Snow had fallen steadily all night long and in…

— Raymond Briggs

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

— Albert Camus

Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would…

— John Gay

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Tell me where were you when those nights got colder, the day I thought that it was all over, but as you could see…

— Blaze Olamiday

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart…

— Carol Ann Duffy

And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out…

— Ally Carter

I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part…

— Anonymous

Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic…

— Tatsuhiko Takimoto

I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all…

— Pierre Trudeau

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where…

— Patricia Cornwell