Icicles Quotes

“Imagine having to live in a place like this," she said through chattering teeth. "You'd have to pick your nose all the time just so that your boogers wouldn't freeze into icicles and stab the inside of your nose.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“The icicles wreathing
On trees in festoon
Swing, swayed to our breathing:
They’re made of the moon.”
― Elinor Wylie

“Ice

Sometimes, the only things barring you
from Christ's Blessings--
Are the icicles surrounding your heart?”
― Theresa Rough PhD, Hundredfold Baroque Pearls

“He hated winter. The same gray sky lay on the ground, day after day, gray as industrial smoke, and in the sky the ground floated like a street that's been salted, and his closets were cold, holes wore through his pockets, and he was lonely, indoors and out, with a loneliness like the loneliness of overshoes or someone else's cough.”
― William H. Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

“We seemed to have emerged upon a snowy curve of mountainside below a glacier--- I believe we were in Faerie, for there were two little stone houses tucked in amongst the jagged icicles at the glacier's edge, with smoke curling from their chimneys. One had an apple tree in its yard, the apples coated in a rind of ice. The icicles themselves were like a forest of glittering trees, through which the fox faerie was darting, deeper into the glacier.
"Hurry up!" the faerie called.
I hurried, against my better judgment I might add, but then that is almost always the case when interacting with the Folk; stumbling into an impossible forest of icicles is not the most ill-advised thing I have done in my career. The forest made little plinking sounds and reflected our darting shapes strangely. In the distance, there was music.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands