"In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year."

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Source : Cynthia Rylant (2015). “In November”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Cynthia Rylant

#Morning Quotes #Fog Quotes #Years Quotes

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
“Your enlightenment is more powerful than your ignorance.”
“It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
“The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”
“And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life”
“My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.”
“In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.”
“Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.”

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