Snow Quotes

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Lewis Carroll
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

Markus Zusak
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

E.E. Cummings
“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
E.E. Cummings

Catherine Fisher
“Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.
-Songs of Sapphique”
Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

Mary Oliver
“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”
Mary Oliver

Nikki Giovanni
“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.”
Nikki Giovanni

George R.R. Martin
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Carl Reiner
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
Carl Reiner

Jamie McGuire
“The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with
disappointment to the ground”
Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

Sylvia Plath
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.”
Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Sarah Addison Allen
“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

Janet Fitch
“Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.”
Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Draco's like... snow," said Hermione quietly, her gaze absent and distracted. "It's cold and cruel to begin with, but it's somehow beautiful, and you miss it when it's not there. And if you hold it in your hands close enough and long enough, it changes. It melts.”
Bex-chan, Isolation

Novala Takemoto
“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity”
Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
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Criss Jami
“Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Haruki Murakami
“With luck, it might even snow for us.”
Haruki Murakami, After Dark
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Maggie Stiefvater
“It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.”
Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

Matsuo Bashō
“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow”
Hashin, Japanese Haiku

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

Jean Webster
“Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.”
Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

Roman Payne
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs.”
Roman Payne

Carol Rifka Brunt
“…there’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special, even though you know you’re not.”
Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

L.M. Montgomery
“Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The more I see, the less I know, the more I'd like to let it go.”
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Bret Easton Ellis
“I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.”
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

L.M. Montgomery
“Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside

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

Cambria Hebert
“The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.”
Cambria Hebert, Whiteout

Louise Penny
“Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson."

"Lake and Palmer?"

"Ralph and Waldo.”
Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

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