Quote by Thomas Hardy

“She was a bright disc in him that left him sun-spun. She was circular, light-turned, equinox-sprung. She was season and movement, but he had…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What had come over her? He'd touched her, and it was like electric flame -- like the lightning she could summon -- shooting sparks…

— C.L. Wilson

“If only the winter could have opened up to show her it was vulnerable, too.”

— Emily Ruskovich

“Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me.”

— Diane Setterfield

“He thought that she looked like Winter; meaning both the girl he had once known and the season. He had always believed that winter's…

— Ben Spencer

“Everyone, he thought, must have adored her; all men assuredly must have coveted her. She seemed but the more beautiful to him for this;…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead…

— Grace Willows

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

— Shana Abe

“She had covered herself in frost, so every part of her grew cold and would not feel, because of that single part that longed…

— Shehanne Moore

“Then her hands rose and rested on him, the tears cool on his face, congealing, the white of her clean as the silent snow…

— Diana Gabaldon

“A frost lay over all her emotions and she thought that she would never feel anything warmly again.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“She wasn't always a pillar of ice. Her warmth and good deeds were repaid with deceit and betrayal until little by little a chill…

— Donna Lynn Hope