Dorothy Parker

Like January weather, the years will bite and smart and pull your bones together to wrap your chattering heart. There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

Miranda Kenneally

What happens when you don’t find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn’t great, everything isn’t perfect, but it’s nice and sweet?

Jodi Picoult

When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don’t notice when they drop off your world.

Flora Thompson

So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form—every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky. New vistas, obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.