#winter

Annabelle’s eyes stung as she stared at him, while need and inexhaustible tenderness gathered like an ache in her body. “I realized something,” she said huskily, “when I was standing outside the foundry, watching it burn and knowing you were inside.” She swallowed hard against the thickness in her throat. “I would rather have died in your arms, Simon, than face a lifetime without you. All those endless years… all those winters, summers… a hundred seasons of wanting you and never having you. Growing old, while you stayed eternally young in my memories.” She bit her lip and shook her head, while her eyes flooded. “I was wrong when I told you that I didn’t know where I belonged. I do. With you, Simon. Nothing matters except being with you. You’re stuck with me forever, and I’ll never listen when you tell me to go.” She managed a tremulous smile. “So you may as well stop complaining and resign yourself to it. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#hunt #simon #wallflower #winter

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#winter

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#around #church #coming #coming home #evening

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#always #around #does #during #every

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#another #away #been #boy #come

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#happy #notice #people #summer #whether

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world. ↗

— Julia Gardiner Tyler

#am #commenced #entertaining #i #intend

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#evenings #first #know #long #money

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#cold #days #hot #light #march

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow? ↗

— Black Elk

#bend #even #friend #going #heavy