Cassandra Renee

“Without stormy days, we forget to value sunny skies.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Life is a progression of becoming who we are.”
― J.R. Rim

“Bay remembered the Waverley house full of pumpkin pie scents in the fall. There had been mountains of maple cakes with violets hidden inside, lakes of butternut soups with chrysanthemum petals floating on top.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“In the autumn, the entire backyard became a mass of lollipop-yellow leaves, so bright they lit up the night like daylight. Birds nesting in the trees would get confused because they couldn't tell what time of day it was, and they would stay awake for days until they dropped out of the branches with exhaustion.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper