Black Ice Quotes

• Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.

  David Bowick

  Girl, Fall, Thinking

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• In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.

  Junot Diaz

  Brother, Jobs, Cancer

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• I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

  Apolo Ohno

  Winter, Ice, Two

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• But it is never over;
  nothing ends until we want it to.
  Look, in shattered midnights,
  On black ice under silver trees,
  We are still dancing, dancing.

  Gwendolyn MacEwen

  Ice, Dancing, Tree

  Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rosemary Sullivan (1999). “Gwendolyn MacEwen”, p.97, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.

  Lorene Cary

  Art, Children, Equality

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