“As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it's telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from.”

“It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

“You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.”
Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?”
You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

“If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me." -Hatsuharu”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.”

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

“You could never know what it's like
Your blood like winter freezes just like ice
And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you
You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use”

Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist

“Victor: White people won't respect you if you don't look mean. You have to look like a warrior, like you just got back from killing a buffalo.
Thomas: But our tribe never hunted buffalo. We were fishermen.
Victor: What, you want to look like you just caught a fish? This isn't Dances with Salmon, you know!”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

“I liked you, cop. From the moment I met you. No… not the first moment. I wanted to kill you when I first met you. But then I liked you. A lot.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”

H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) American science fiction writer