Jeanette Winterson

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

British Novelist

Imagine a giant, flat piece of ice, like a natural raft adrift in the ocean.

Visual Imagery

Floes are much larger than ice cubes but smaller than glaciers, usually seen in polar seas.

Size Context

A floe is not stable ground; it's temporary and can move or melt.

Not Solid Land

 when awareness of climate change was suddenly surging. We kept seeing that image of a polar bear stranded on a little ice floe looking really morose. I spent days looking through these files. I really love them. This one's my favorite. If you can see, it's a polar bear that's drowning and then it's also being eaten simultaneously

The strange story of the...

 the most intense experiences I ever had in my whole life jumping from one ice crew to another we were swimming across this pitch-black open leads from one ice floe and across we fought in tents called polar bears lurking around but at the same time this is probably also the most