Taya

“The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house-fronts between the elms looked gray against the snow, clumps of bushes made black stains on it, and the basement windows of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

“It was an endless monologue, like that we sometimes hear from inanimate nature in deep secret places where water flows, or where ivy leaves flap against stones; but by degrees she was convinced that the voice was Winterborne's.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders

“It was snowing with a fine-flaked desultoriness just sufficient to make the woodland grey, without ever achieving whiteness.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders

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