If you’re anything like me, August is not summer, but a pre-autumn! I spend this month getting ready for the fall season: ordering fall candles, making a list of spooky reads, and planning all my autumn activities. If you’re an autumn person like me, and can’t wait for September to come, you’ll love this list of autumn book quotes.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.
― Ray Bradbury
October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!
― Rainbow Rowell , Attachments
The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.
― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.
― Eleanor Estes, The Witch Family
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.
― E.M. Forster, Howards End
Beware the autumn people
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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