![]() Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.'" Jane Austen, Persuasion "At no other time does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne Autumns seem that season of beginning, Spring." F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby "Aprils have never meant that much to me. ![]() Time is not what it is but how it is felt, and Zora felt no different.” Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s It seemed wrong that she should be walking towards town without a shiny tie and a pleated skirt, without a selection of scented erasers. The shudder sent leaves to the ground all at once, and Zora Belsey had that strange, late-September feeling that somewhere in a small classroom with small chairs an elementary school teacher was waiting for her. “Summer left Wellington abruptly and slammed the door on the way out. ![]() Over the years, different perspectives on autumn have been offered in all sorts of books. No wonder so many novels make perfect autumnal reading – the kind that, like Anne of Green Gables, make us "glad to live in a world where there are Octobers". ![]() Rolling mists and falling leaves have long inspired writers as the nights draw in. ![]()
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