The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods. - Henry Beston The servants of God who had been a besieged garrison became a marching army; the ways of the world were filled as with thunder with the trampling of their feet and far ahead of that ever swelling host went a man singing; as simply he had sung that morning in the winter woods, where he walked alone. - Gilbert K Chesterton They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods - Edith Wharton

She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss - David Benioff In the country, spring is a time of small happenings happening quietly, hyacinth shoots thrusting in a garden, willows burning with a sudden frosty fire of green, lengthening afternoons of long flowing dusk, and midnight rain opening lilac; but in the city there is the fanfare of organ-grinders, and odors, undiluted by winter wind, clog the air; windows long closed go up, and conversation, drifting beyond a room, collides with the jangle of a peddler's bell. - Truman Capote I became the very air; I was full of stars. I was the soaring spaces between the spires of the cathedral, the solemn breath of chimneys, a whispered prayer upon the winter wind. I was silence,and I was music, one clear transcendent chord rising toward Heaven. I be...

The zeal of the stupid in her, Chris began turning pages as if it were the winter solstice gift catalog, earmarking pages and cooing in delight at the new possibilities. - Kim Harrison No one wears buckles anymore, and I decided to get him some real boots next winter solstice. Some sexy guy boots. Yeah. - Kim Harrison As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing. - Mark Helprin

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream. - Kristi Yamaguchi I think they should combine the Summer and Winter Olympics and call it the Fall Olympics. They could host it in the spring. - Jarod Kintz I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. - Vanessa Mae Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. - Marvin Olasky When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics. - Bryn Terfel Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics. - Scott Walker

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights! (Alanna) - Tamora Pierce You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark - Suzanne Collins I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights. - Raymond Chandler Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. - Wilkie Collins He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floo...

Winter is coming - George R R Martin For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming. - George R R Martin Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live." "Why " Bran said not understanding falling falling. "Because winter is coming. - George R R Martin Winter Is Coming. -House Stark- - George R R Martin Winter is coming, Elena," he said, and his voice was clear and chilling even over the howling of the wind, "An unforgiving season. Before it comes, you'll have learned what I can and can't do. Before winter is here, you'll have joined me. You'll be mine. - L J Smith Hadrian shook his head and sighed. "Why do you have to make everything so difficult? They're probably not bad peoplejust poor. You know, taking what they need to buy a loaf of bread to feed their family. Can you begrudge them that? Winter is coming and times are hard." He nodded his head in th...

Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips. - Jonathan Lethem To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it. - Henry David Thoreau I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret. - Audrey Niffenegger

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs. - Kyle Maclachlan I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes. - Alexei Sayle

The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school. - Rick Riordan After finals and winter break...after I'm back to full strength, we'll go get Preston. Whether Mom and Abby and Joe and Townsend like it or not, we'll go get him. And then...' I trailed off. 'And then we'll finish this. Next semester, this thing ends. - Ally Carter Then one Sunday morning, before winter break, Abby's boyfriend, Whitney, materialized at their kitchen table, reading something called "Of Grammatology". When Madeleine asked what the book was about, she was given to understand by Whitney that the idea of a book being "about" something was exactly what this book was against, and that, if it was "about" anything, then it was about the need to stop thinking of books as being about things. - Jeffrey Eugenides

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated. - Ritchie Blackmore We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do. - Rick Derringer The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. - Alexis Korner The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. - Johnny Winter

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome. - John Green What am I doing here in this endless winter? - Franz Kafka