“(I had a need in winter. We all did, oh.)”

“The things we did last summer I'll remember all winter long.”

“Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!”

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."[Meditations Divine and Moral]”

“From the first winter afternoon in the Harvard ball fields, "Oh no--I need you" had become an admission and a clarion call--the tenet of dependency that forms the weft of friendship. We needed each other so that we could count the endless days of forests and flat water, but the real need was soldered by the sadder, harder moments--discord or helplessness or fear--that we dared to expose to each other. It took me years to grasp that this grit and discomfort in any relationship are an indicator of closeness, not it's opposite.”

“June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.”