Snow quotes
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"I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.” “What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.” “You gave me help when I needed it” Jon Snow said. “I gave you nothing,” Tyrion said. “Words.” “Then give your words to Bran too."
"Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live."
"I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever"
"Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope."
"Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow"
"Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow"
"Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black."
"Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented."
"As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up."
"The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!"
"In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs."
"Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary."
"Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet."
"Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others."
"The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow."
"You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls."
"It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous."
"First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge."
"Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction."
"Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers."
