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• I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Smell, Feet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.289, Scholastic Inc.

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• Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Lying, Gun, Girl Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.17, Vintage

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• Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Wall, Pain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.283

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• Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Beautiful, Dark, Fire

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• They don't make coats for this kind of cold

  Ryan Adams

  Coats, Kind

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• Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us, a gloomy line of snuffed-out candles; the nearest are smoking still, cold, melted, and bent. I don’t want to look at them: their shape saddens me, and it saddens me to remember their original light. I look ahead at my lighted candles. I don’t want to turn for fear of seeing, terrified, how quickly that dark line gets longer, how quickly the snuffed-out candles proliferate.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fate, Perfect, Miracle

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• Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Blood, Battle

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.284, Delacorte Press

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• Dead or not, you must be bored with women telling you how you look like the hottest, most exotic wet dream they’ve ever had. No wonder the thought of you, grapes, and some scented massage oils crossed my mind – and if you drop that towel again, I’m going to need a cold shower.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dream, Oil, Bored

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• Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Children, Husband, Heart

  Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.311, Bantam

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• The life of truth is cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.490, Library of America

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Fall, Autumn

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• Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Children, Wall

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1402, Bantam

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• LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.

  William Blake

  Moving, Heart, Wind

  William Blake (1973). “The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical: Poems”

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• I scooted over, patting the bed next to me. "No such luck. And now you get to watch forty straight hours of Easton Heights with me!" He turned on the first disk, shaking his head, then got onto the bed next to me. "Small price to pay for getting to hold your hand." I wasn't cold anymore.

  Kiersten White

  Hands, Luck, Bed

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• I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!

  Kim Harrison

  Hungry, Holes

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• There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

  Carson McCullers

  Fall, Night, Firsts

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

  Carson McCullers

  Heart, Causes, Ecstasy

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.271, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I made it," you said, gruffly, "for you." You shoved it onto my finger. It was roughly carved, shaped from a lump of something colourful and cold...a ring made entirely from a gemstone. It was beautiful. It glinted emerald greens and blood reds over my skin, and had tiny flecks of gold catching the light. I couldn't stop staring at it. "Why?" I asked. You didn't answer that. Instead you touched the ring gently and looked piercingly at me, unsaid questions in your eyes.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Eye, Light

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• Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?

  Kami Garcia

  Lonely, Dirty, Someone You Love

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• And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Past, Thinking

  "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath".

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• Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night.

  Karen Hawkins

  Passion, Heart, Mean

  Karen Hawkins (2009). “Sleepless in Scotland”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.

  Raymond Chandler

  Air, Ashes, Wet

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.557, Modern Library

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• If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst.

  Simone Elkeles

  Life, Water, Missing

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Spring, Winter

  "Fictional character: Gríma Wormtongue". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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