“See, lady, that's what happens to snow in Texas. It- freaking- melts.”

“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”

“When snow melts, what does it become?'
It becomes water, of course'
Wrong! It becomes spring!”

“Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time”

“And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!”

“What?" she asked again.
He pointed ahead of them. "See that?"
"What, the snow?"
"Beyond that."
"More snow?"
"Stop looking at the snow.”

“I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.”

“The heart is the battlefield of love. Some people end up by melting down as snow on a sunny day.”

“Man, who is the noblest part of the earth, melts so away as if he were a statue, not of earth, but of snow.”

“Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.”