“Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.” ― Alan Gibbons, The Dark Beneath

 “The world was furred with late spring snow. It was the soft, thick stuff that excites you unless you are driving or half dead, packing snow already falling in caterpillars off the greening branches.”

― Marian Engel, Bear