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• It rang and it rand and it rang. I looked at the screen one last time, then at Stuart, and then I reached my arm back and threw the phone as hard as I could (sadly, not that far), and it vanished into the snow. The eight-year-olds, who were truly fascinated with our every move at this point, chased after it. 'Lost it,' I said. 'Whoops.

  Maureen Johnson

  Moving, Eight, Phones

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• Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Night, Watches

  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.187, Bantam

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• Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me…but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Giving, Battle

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• Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

  Suzanne Collins

  Unfinished Business, President Snow, White

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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• When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke and pine needles. I smell the stables. I smell Hodor laughing, and Jon and Robb battling in the yard, and Sansa singing about some stupid lady fair. I smell the crypts where the stone kings sit. I smell hot bread baking. I smell the godswood. I smell my wolf. I smell her fur, almost as if she were still beside me. "I don't smell anything," she said.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Children, Stupid

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• If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

  Pablo Neruda

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Pablo Neruda, “The Dead Woman”

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• The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Stars, Moon, Blood

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.149, Scholastic UK

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• Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wall, Gun, Encounters

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.340, Scholastic Inc.

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• Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

  John Muir

  Flower, Dark, Sky

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.391, e-artnow

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• I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Distance, Thinking, Sky

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Fall, Eye, Night

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us harm.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Hate, Fall

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.230, Bantam

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• Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Heart, Angel

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lonely, Silence, Tree

  Heinrich Heine (1887). “Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine”, London : W. Scott

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• It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Fire, Blue

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• Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!” said Hermione. “We didn’t hear stories like that when we were little, we heard ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Cinderella’ —” “What’s that, an illness?” asked Ron.

  J. K. Rowling

  White, Muggles, Stories

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• And this is a kiss like none before, a kiss that could overcome the dark of deep space night. It's a falling star, flame, ice. It's pure as water from a snow-fed mountain spring. This is what you dream a kiss to be. To have a kiss just like this each and every day! How satisfying life would be.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Stars, Spring

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• Free the snow globes!

  Libba Bray

  Globes, Going Bovine

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• There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do not have girlfriends. God forbid Snow White should give Sleeping Beauty a little support. Let's review: princesses avoid female bonding. Their goals are to be saved by a prince, get married, and be taken care of the rest of their lives.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Princess, Taken

  Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Killing, Currents

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

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• Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

  Lois Lowry

  Dream, Distance, Feelings

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how one woman can have so much black hair. You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. You will always run away with her. You will always lose her. You will always be a fool. You will always be dead, in a city of ice, snow falling into your ear. You have already done all of this and will do it again.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Falling In Love, Cutting

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• She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement.

  Anne Sexton

  Hate, Lying, Paris

  Anne Sexton, “Oh”

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• Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Beautiful, Rose, Lasts

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when you wake up and the world has been blanketed by snow overnight, and not a single footstep or tire track has spoiled the untouched perfection of it.

  Tammara Webber

  Mean, Track, Perfection

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.139, Tammara Webber

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