I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city.
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Siegfried Sassoon
They're the first crew I've ever had and most of them even call me Captain. I'm going to miss them.
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Marissa Meyer
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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Sinclair Lewis
When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky...
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Sarah Addison Allen
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.
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Robert Byrne
More Quotes By Anna Akhmatova
Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous, Entwined with delightful mystery, They will breathe in her springlike Extraordinary beauty. But in a whirlwind of sound and fire,...
Let my heiress have full rights, Live in my house, sing songs that I composed. Yet how slowly my strength ebbs, How the tortured breast craves air. The love of my friends, my enemies' rancor And the yellow roses in my bushy garden, And a...
You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.
This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowedinto a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed:the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance...
