Tanja Stevanovic

“I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“We sat in silence, letting the green in the air heal what it could.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“There is peace in wilderness—
winter nights luminescent,
with the silent falling of snow.”
― Meeta Ahluwalia

“Winter is a quiet house in lamplight, a spin the garden to see bright stars on a clear night, the roar of the wood-burning stove, and the accompanying smell of charred wood. It is warming the teapot and making cups of bitter cocoa; it is stews magicked from bones with dumplings floating like clouds. It is reading quietly and passing away the afternoon twilight watching movies. It is thick socks and the bundle of a cardigan.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times