I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks

Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot

Happy autumn!

—lucy