“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winterthat only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive. - Rilke”
“You are the only warmth in my heart. The only sunshine my winter has ever known. (Talon)”
“It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep”
“June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.”
“She thought little of her ordeal. Cruelty was part of nature, like a winter frost; something to be survived and then forgotten (p.689)”