#now

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. ↗

— Robert Frost

#snow

She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. “Sometimes I really want to”—a frustrated sound—“bite you!” He froze. “I might let you.” “I won’t do it if you’d enjoy it. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#hawke #sassy #sienna #snow

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#snow

She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose].... ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#eva-ibbotson #roses #russia #snow

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#snow

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#lost #recapture #understand #snow

I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#snow

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#snow

so the story goes but theres something you should know before i walk away and i blow the ending i never want to be without you oh no here i go now you know what i feel about you theres no running must have been wrong to doubt you oh there i go no control and i'm fallen so now you know ↗

— Hilary Duff

#hilary-duff #now-you-know #hilarious

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#knowledge #judgement