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Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Francesco Petrarca
“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere: Selected Poems

A.S. Byatt
“Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one
sensation, fire, from the other, frost.”
A.S. Byatt, Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
tags: cold, ice

C.C. Hunter
“Change his mind. Tell him you're sorry you grilled his shorts." That you're sorry you've got ice running through your veins .”
C.C. Hunter, Born at Midnight

Neil Gaiman
“By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.

Not that year.

Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.”
Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants

Robert Frost
“I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great”
Robert Frost
tags: fire, ice

Shayla Black
“She frowned. “I did nothing to arouse you.”
He clenched his jaw, his stare growing more aggressive. “You breathed.”
Shayla Black, Possess Me at Midnight

Jessica Day George
“Love you always, miss you always... running day and night, leaving the place of sun and moon, of ice and snow.

Never look back, never forget.”
Jessica Day George, Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow

Haruki Murakami
“Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way - cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.”
Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
tags: ice

Robert Frost
“Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
Robert Frost

Malinda Lo
“She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.”
Malinda Lo, Huntress

Hafsah Faizal
“A flower. White and whiskered in a fringe of ice. Silken petals held together in a loose grip”
Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

Angela Carter
“Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming on, the sun declining in ghastly blood-streaked splendour like a public execution across, it would seem, half a continent, where live only bears and shooting stars and the wolves who lap congealing ice from water that holds within it the entire sky. All white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be used or touched. Horrors! And, as on a cyclorama, this unnatural spectacle rolls past at twenty-odd miles an hour in a tidy frame of lace curtains only a little the worse for soot and drapes of a heavy velvet of dark, dusty blue.”
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus

Vera Nazarian
“Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day.

But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away.

When you don’t have anything warm at hand, even a memory can be a small substitute.

Remember a searing look of intimate eyes.

Receive the inner fire.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Sarah Beth Durst
“Whether he loved her or not didn't change how she felt about him. She loved him independent and regardless of whether he loved her.”
Sarah Beth Durst, Ice
tags: ice, love

Rachel A. Marks
“I drag the body out into the snowdrifts, as far away from our shack as I can muster. I put her in a thicket of trees, where the green seems to still have a voice in the branches, and try not to think about the beasts that’ll soon be gathering. There’s no way of burying her; the ground is a solid rock of ice beneath us.

I kneel beside her and want desperately to weep. My throat tightens and my head aches. Everything hurts inside. But I have no way of releasing it. I’m locked up and hard as stone.

“I’m sorry, Mamma,” I whisper to the shell in front of me. I take her hand. It could belong to a glass doll. There’s no life there anymore.

So I gather rocks, one by one, and set them over her, trying my best to protect her from the birds, the beasts, keep her safe as much as I can now. I pile the dark stones gently on her stomach, her arms, and over her face, until she becomes one with the mountain.

I stand and study my work, feeling like the rocks are on me instead, then I leave the body for the forest and ice.”
Rachel A. Marks, Winter Rose

Erin  Forbes
“There are times when the unseen can be even more dangerous than what our eyes behold.”
Erin Forbes, The Elementals

Victoria Aveyard
“I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze.”
Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

Apsley Cherry-Garrard
“Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.”
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World

Anna Kavan
“Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.”
Anna Kavan, Ice

Natalya Vorobyova
“Justice has to be cold. Deal with it; it's just ice.”
Natalya Vorobyova

Dejan Stojanovic
“Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.”
Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

Sarah Beth Durst
“She had a hundred reasons: because Bear had carved a statue of her in the center of the topiary garden, because she could always make him laugh, because he'd let her return to the station, because he won at chess and lost at hockey, because he ran as fast as he could to polar bear births, because he had seal breath even as a human, because his hands were soft, because he was her Bear. "Because i want my husband back," Cassie said.”
Sarah Beth Durst, Ice
tags: ice, love

Sarah Ockler
“Mom asked for a cupcake miracle? Well, here comes the freaking holy angel of icing, at your service. --Hudson

Angel icing? That's the craziest, corniest, most whack-ass stuff I've heard in my life
Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

Steve Kluger
“Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.”
Steve Kluger

“One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.”
Alec Wilkinson, The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

Mary Lawson
“The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on their bellies. So they did. “We thought it was exciting as all get out,” Miss Vernon said. “We could hear the ice cracking but it didn’t give, and we slid across it like seals. Oh, it was tremendous fun. The ice was clear as glass and you could see right to the bottom. All the stones lying there, brighter and more colourful than they ever are when you look through the water. You could even see fish swimming about. And then all at once there was this loud crack and the whole sheet gave way, and there we were in the water.”
Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

Will Advise
“With all the global warming going around nowadays, it would only take the stubbornness of a mule and the patience of a sitting duck to achieve what no man has ever done before – namely melt the ice in a wax figure’s beaten heart that was chopped off and hidden 50 meters under the polar ice caps in Alaska, to protect it from feeling.”
Will Advise, Nothing is here...

Edgar Allan Poe
“All in the immediate vicinity of the ship, is the blackness of eternal night, and a chaos of foamless water; but, about a league on either side of us, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate sky, and looking like the walls of the universe.”
Edgar Allan Poe, MS. Found in a Bottle

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