You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand. " He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?
Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever. . .
Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb May look wrinkled and wet And withered, and white as the snow, But the taste of a thumb Is the sweetest taste yet (As only we thumb-sucker's know).
The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing. . . God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?
At least 3,527 U. S. monthly records for heat, rain, and snow were broken in 2012. We can't let this continue unchecked, and we don't have to.
You can live without me. " "I don't want to. " I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.
Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time without realizing what we are seeing. . . Scientists predict that it will cause great snows which the world has not seen since the last ice age thousands of years ago.
My skin's too white. " she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.
[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.
For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house. ' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples. ' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.