Snow quotations

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◆ 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 Webster99

◆ With luck, it might even snow for us.

- Haruki Murakami99

◆ Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with ?pek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

- Orhan Pamuk99

◆ Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.

- Charlie English99

◆ The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

- Gary D. Schmidt99

◆ The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

- Shannon Hale99

◆ Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

- Candace Bushnell99

◆ It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.

- Truman Capote99

◆ Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?

- John B. Tabb99

◆ The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

- William Goldman99

◆ Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

- L.M. Montgomery99

◆ His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

- George R.R. Martin99

◆ The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

- Maud Hart Lovelace99

◆ With melted snow I boil fragrant tea.

- Mencius99

◆ A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.

- Edward Gorey99