Autumn Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

“She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...”

— Virginia Woolf

“She felt vaguely upset and unsettled. She was suddenly tired of outworn dreams. And in the garden the petals of the last red rose…

— L.M. Montgomery

“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.”

— Kate Atkinson

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to…

— Marguerite Duras

“It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful…

— Katherine Mansfield

“The unhoped was all but granted her. She could labour on in the valley of the shadow of books, for a ray of dazzling…

— George Gissing

“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went.…

— Robert Harris

“She had no obligations; she roamed outdoors, sniffing the flora and chasing the fauna, her mind filled with images, smells, colors, and myths borne…

— Isabel Allende

“It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The…

— Wilkie Collins

“She was like the sun, She knew her place in the world - She would shine again regardless of all the storms and changeable…

— Nikki Rowe

“Even her footsteps did not seem to belong to her. The night seized and transformed them, just as it transformed the greenhouses they passed…

— Penelope Farmer