Accepting cold feet

“Maine Coast Winter 1909” (oil on canvas), by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.”

― Marilynne Robinson (born 1943), from her novel Gilead

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“Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.’’

— Paul Theroux (1941), American travel writer, novelist and essayist