Autumn

“Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch