Kim Larson

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Out of the dreariness
Into its cheeriness
Come we in weariness,
Home.”
― Stephen Chalmers

“AUTUMNAL

Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer's loss
Seems little, dear! on days like these.

Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
Eludes a little time's deceit.

Are we not better and at home
In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
No harvest joy is worth a dream?
A little while and night shall come,
A little while, then, let us dream.

Beyond the pearled horizons lie
Winter and night: awaiting these
We garner this poor hour of ease,
Until love turn from us and die
Beneath the drear November trees.”
― Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

“This was real life, not a book. And in
real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went
home.”
― Danielle Steele