AtomicQuote

Susan Orlean Quote

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

Susan Orlean

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

Tags: winter, roads, black

Related Quotes

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

Ashly Lorenzana

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

Tags: blizzard, depression, despair, hopelessness, leaves, metaphor, nature, sadness, snow, symbolism

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

George R.R. Martin

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Tags: a song of ice and fire, coldness, fear, forest, george r r martin, north, snow, the wall, trees, wind

So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and i...

Charlotte Eriksson

So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and i...

Tags: apartment, bones, break up, broken, cold, day, drinking, drunk, empty, every day

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake.

Stephanie Perkins

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake.

Tags: christmas, first kiss, holiday, life, love, my true love gave to me, winter

The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow...

Helen Bevington

The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow...

Tags: apple, apples, april, auden, autumn, burns, byron, coffee, de la mare, fall

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How co...

Roman Payne

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How co...

Tags: anotnius and calypia, cold, coldness, december, february, forest, freezing, frost, january, maidens

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

Ashly Lorenzana

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

Tags: bitterness, coldness, despair, frost, hopelessness, lost, pearls, poetry, sadness, winter

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

Ashly Lorenzana

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

Tags: bleakness, coldness, depression, despair, falling, falling apart, hopelessness, poetry, rhyming, sadness

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

Nicole Richie

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

Tags: design, winter, i am, house

Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin'; if you're not mitten-smitten, you'll be frostbitten! By jing-y feels spring-y.

Old Farmer's Almanac

Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin'; if you're not mitten-smitten, you'll be frostbitten! By jing-y feels spring-y.

Tags: 2014, 2015, february, humor, page 135, snow, the old farmer s almanac, weather, winter
About Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean (born October 31, 1955) is an American journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside. In 2021, Orlean joined the writing team of HBO comedy series How To with John Wilson.
Orlean's 1998 non-fiction book The Orchid Thief was adapted into the film Adaptation (2002). Meryl Streep received an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Orlean.