Autumn

“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – wait and hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.”
― Daisaku Ikeda

“Do not enter with defeat in your heart for that is the first victory of evil.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night