Spooky (Book) Season 🎃
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea; Mean Girls, 2004; William Stanley Merwin, The Love for October; L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables / Anne with an E, 2017; Rainbow Rowell, Attachments; Girl in Red, “We Fell In Love In October”; Virginia Woolf, The Waves; Virginia Woolf, diary entry, October 1927.
After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth… The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her… In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.
Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Anne reveled in the world of color about her. ‘Oh, Marilla,’ she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, 'I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill–several thrills?’
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, The October Country
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 whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.
Ray Bradbury, The October Country
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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