Carolina

“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“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

“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.”
― Gregory F. Lenz

“What do you want to get away from?' she repeated and put her hands around his face. Finally he turned his head and looked at her with pain in his eyes and a dry laugh. 'Me,' he said. 'It's completely trivial. A lonely heart and pain and something that never heals.”
― Sara Blaedel, The Forgotten Girls