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Quotes About September

Did you see her?" the Marid said nervously, looking at her with great dark eyes. "Our daughter. Standing on the Gear. Dis you see her?" "What?" said September—and then she winked out, like someone blowing out a candle, and all the field was still.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I think I look a little like a pumpkin," whispered September, secretly delighted. "I'm all green and orange.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Obviously, the eating or drinking of Fairy foodstuffs constitutes a binding contract to return at least once a year in accordance with seasonal myth cycles." September started. "What? What does that mean?" The Green Wind stroked his neatly pointed beard. "It means: Eat anything you like, precious cherry child!
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
September felt sure that her shadow and everyone's shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
September had only had coffee once, when her Aunt Margaret had snuck her a sip while her mother wasn't looking. It tasted bitter, but wild and strange. She rather wanted to taste it again.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Septembri maailmas algasid paljud asjad pan -iga. Pandeemia , pangaea , panatsea , panoptikum . Need olid suured sõnad, seda kindlasti, aga nagu öeldud, luges September palju ja talle meeldis, kui sõnad ei üritanud lihtsad välja paista, vaid tõmbasid selga täisvarustuses soomusrüü ja kappasid lippude lehvides lahinguväljale.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn't simply knocked silly by her fall.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
city did take a few precautions. On September 18, its health officials began a public campaign against coughing, spitting, and sneezing. Three days later, the city
~ Gina Kolata
Insomma una brutta domenica di settembre, di quel settembre traditore che vi lascia andare un colpo di mare fra capo e collo, come una schioppettata fra i fichidindia.
~ Giovanni Verga
The change always comes about mid-August, and it always catches me by surprise. I mean the day when I know that summer is fraying at the edges, that September isn't far off and fall is just over the hill or up the valley.
~ Hal Borland
Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
~ John Howard
Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself. So August gave way to September and there were few complaints.
~ Clive Barker
Three months, I thought. In idle moments, I retreated into that early-summer dream of reinvention, when you set your eyes on September and that refurbished self you were going to tool around in, honking the horn so people would take notice...
~ Colson Whitehead
The first time I had sex with a man for money, it was September.
~ Laura Kasischke
in September of 1517, Magellan asked if he could offer his services elsewhere
~ Laurence Bergreen
OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
~ Mark Twain
Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.
~ Peggy Toney Horton
Noons are sunny, warm, and still; A golden haze o'erhangs the hill; Amber sunshine 's on the floor Just within the open door; In September.
~ Elizabeth Cole
Fair orchard trees wave their fruit-laden arms, And nature smiles in her Autumnal charms.
~ John Askham, "September"