“Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ”
“Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to theother shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”
“You are the Fire Lily", said the Winterking softly. "And I am the Ice King. Does fire melt ice? Or ice melt fire? Or may they come together, fire and ice, neither melted nor quenched?”
“Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.”
“He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him. Never will. He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, I'd know joy. Who Knew? Much later we might fly a couple of Hunters to the moon.”
“Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.”