Melissa

“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”
― Cynthia Rylant, In November

“The day and time itself: late afternoon in early February, was there a moment of the year better suited for despair?”
― Alice McDermott

“There is a subtle magic in the falling of old leaves.”
― Avijeet Das

“if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein