"So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and friendship,
And warmth will come to you."
— Stephen Cosgrove (Gnome from Nome)

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one
sensation, fire, from the other, frost."
— A.S. Byatt (Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice)

"Your lover can make your heart sing a million symphonies but only your TRUE love can make your heart FREEZE."
— Kayl Aran

""Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out.""
— Stephen Cosgrove (Gnome from Nome)

"We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
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— David Weatherford

""The hottest love has the coldest end.""
— Socrates

"And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea..."
— Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho)

"Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes."
— Charles Dickens

"'And you know what happened next in my dream? Dick Cheney and I said the same thing at the same time: "Well, we had a Cold War to win." And then I screamed at him: "I KNEW you would say that! You ALWAYS say that!" But then, since Cheney and I made the same remark at the same time, I realized he owed me a Coke. So I said, "Jinx! You owe me a Coke!" And Vice-President Dick Cheney smiled sheepishly. *Shudder*... I don't even DRINK coke. I tastes like robot sweat.'"
— David Rees (Get Your War On II)

". . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere."
— Richard Paul Evans (A Perfect Day)

""I was there. Yeah, it was called the '80s. Ford was President, Nixon was in the White House and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-a-wall town in what is now known as Utah. Some fella from Colorado shows up, starts making so called "improvements", right? Before we knew what hit us, the streets are running with latte bars'. It got so bad that a fella that liked to, you know... smoke a little grass or drink a little ripple, crow like a rooster, maybe challenge the mayor's son to a gentlemen's duel, was "uncouth, against God." More like bad real estate values. So we had to go!" - Out Cold"
— Out Cold

"Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming on, the sun declining in ghastly blood-streaked splendour like a public execution across, it would seem, half a continent, where live only bears and shooting stars and the wolves who lap congealing ice from water that holds within it the entire sky. All white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be used or touched. Horrors! And, as on a cyclorama, this unnatural spectacle rolls past at twenty-odd miles an hour in a tidy frame of lace curtains only a little the worse for soot and drapes of a heavy velvet of dark, dusty blue."
— Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus)

"The climate of Barrow is Arctic. Temperatures range from cold as shit to fucking freezing."
— Steve Niles (30 Days of Night)

"The lion on your old stone gates
Is not more cold to you than I.
-Lady Clara Vere de Vere"
— Alfed Tennyson