Icebound Quotes

“He was the patron saint of devoted error, living the consequences of his mistakes.”
― Andrea Pitzer, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“They pried open a barrel and divided out their portion of hard bread for the next eight days which came to just under five pounds each. Previously a barrel had only to last five or six days. Now they began to think about how to make the provisions they'd set out with that summer last a full year or more.

The saddest discovery that day however, was that their beer was already running short.”
― Andrea Pitzer, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“From Scotland, north means the Orkney Islands, but on the Orkneys, north means faraway Zembla.”
― Andrea Pitzer, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“Using the Russian name for Nova Zembla, the mirage would come to be called the Novaya Zemlya effect, commemorating the location of the early sun that Barents and company saw in January 1597.”
― Andrea Pitzer, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“Children would jump over lit candlesticks, sometimes a triple candelabra, one flame for each of the kings.”
― Andrea Pitzer, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World