Air Quote by David James Duncan

“Indian summer comes gently, folds over the hills and valleys as softly as the fall of a leaf on a windless day. It is…

— Gladys Taber

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

— Mary C. Ames

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless,…

— John Galsworthy

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile." [ Indian Summer ]”

— John Howard Bryant

The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.

— Wallace Stegner

“winter always carries with it something of our sadness; then April came, that daybreak of summer, fresh like every dawn, gay like every childhood;…

— Victor Hugo

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of…

— Henry Adams

“The day was blossoming into a truly lovely example of autumn... the air was crisp, but the sun was warm”

— Sarah J. Maas

“It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for even before it passes. Pale, bled skies. Thunderstorms in the night. Sour-smelling dawns. It brought…

— Kevin Barry

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare…

— Alexander Smith

“We lived in Indian summer and mistook it for spring.”

— Bruce Catton

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow