“Hnossi glowered at her daughter, a look cold enough to freeze sunshine and shatter it on the pavement.”

“Ohmygod. Did hell just freeze over?" - Zoey Redbird when Aphrodite LaFonte tells her parents that Zoey deserves to be leader of the Dark Daughters”

“"'Sup?" asked Hassan.
"Sup is not a word," answered Colin withought looking up.
"You're like sunshine on a cloudy day, Singleton. When it's cold outside, you're the month of May."”

“Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”

“Cold Mountain cold
Ice freezes rock
Mountains are green
Snow is white
Sun shines bright
Every thing melt
Every thing warm
Warms old man”

“Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.”

“Stood there who knows how long looked / at the clouds the hedge / when someone came out of the door it was her daughter.”

“I tolerate cold water. Anyone who says they love swimming in freezing water is either lying or has never done it.”

“I look into my daughter's eyes. And realize that I'ma learn through her. The Messiah, might even return through her. If I'ma do it, I gotta change the world through her”