“It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”— Diana Gabaldon, amazon.com
“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”— Lee Maynard, quotefancy.com
“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.”— William Bliss, daypoems.net
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”— Joe L. Wheeler, instagram.com
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the…”— George Elliot, amazon.com
“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“At no other time (than autumn) 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.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne, amazon.com
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”— John Donne, amazon.com
“The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.”— Andrea Gibson, preprod.instagram.com
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”— Lauren DeStefano, amazon.com
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”— Henry David Thoreau, literaturepage.com
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”— Sarah Addison Allen, amazon.com
“Okay summer you've been fun but it's time to go I'm ready for crunchy leaves and pumpkin spice now not feeling hot and sticky in the dark.”— Dan Howell, twitter.com