Numbingly Cold Quotes & Sayings

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17. — Joe Elliott

Wolf had blue-checkered fabric tied around his waist. — Marissa Meyer

And she swung the old oar at him with all her strength.
It hit with a great thwack, splintering in two, and he went over the side, into the dark, cold waters of the lake, sinking like a stone.
It took her two seconds. And then she let out a scream for help, tossing the broken oar away from her, and jumped into the water after him.
It was very cold, numbingly so, and as it closed over her head she grabbed for
him, wrapping her arms around his body, ready to sink to the bottom with him.
Instead he kicked, pushing them up so that they broke the surface, his arm
clamped around hers as she struggled. "Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet? — Anne Stuart

The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me. — Dick Van Patten

The speaker was a handsome man, probably only twenty years old, and he had a hard-on the size of a police baton. Impressive, but it wasn't going to save him from a beating. — Gena Showalter

Will wrote frequently to Nellie, describing his daily routine in detail only a lover would not find exhausting. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me. — Charlaine Harris

I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. I'm weird like that. — Haruki Murakami

Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract. — Jeffrey Tucker

A tree there towere Tall and branching That house upholding The hall's wonder Its leaves their hangings Its limbs rafters Its mighty bole In the midst standing. — J.R.R. Tolkien

My eyes can scan the list of work in progress, and I know immediately what's happening in the current month. I even use custom icons on Windows and color-coding on Mac to get even more information at a glance when I open my go-to folder - see the sidebar. — Jill Duffy