"Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers:3-two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)"
— Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You)

"Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation"
— Sarah Addison Allen (The Sugar Queen)

"Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???
Graystripe:...Drowning?
Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?
Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?"
— Erin Hunter

"Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream."
— Charles Baxter (The Feast of Love)

"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)

"...stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. "
— Robert J. Hastings (Tinyburg Tales)

"The best way to die is when your living"
— Alice Hoffman

"On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading, her favorite of which was from Kafka: 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.'"
— Haven Kimmel (The Solace of Leaving Early)

"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)

"There's no use in crying over spilled milk, but there IS use in crying over spilled ice cream."
— Katie Kelly

"Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up and you quickly forget how it's done."
— Alice Hoffman The Ice Queen

"Look, clouds in the vision were summoning me, and mists were crying out to me;
and shooting stars and lightning flashes were hastening me and speeding me along,
and winds in my vision made me fly up and lifted me upward and brought me to heaven.
[...]
And the ceiling was like shooting stars and lightning flashes;
and among them were fiery cherubim, and their heaven was water,
and a flaming fire encircled all their walls, and the doors blazed with fire.
And I went into that house--hot as fire and cold as snow,
and no delight of life was in it."
— Anonymous (1 Enoch: A New Translation)

"Some say the world will end in fire,
some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if i had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
— Robert Frost

""Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the part. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.""
— Zoey Dean (Almost Famous)

"You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck."
— Rick Moody