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  • #1
    E.M. Forster
    “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
    E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

  • #2
    Charles Dickens
    “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #3
    Emily Wing Smith
    “Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.”
    Emily Wing Smith, Back When You Were Easier to Love

  • #4
    George Eliot
    “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
    George Eliot

  • #5
    “I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
    Tim Daly

  • #7
    Calvin Trillin
    “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
    Calvin Trillin

  • #8
    Rita Rudner
    “I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”
    Rita Rudner

  • #9
    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

  • #10
    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

  • #11
    Trenton Lee Stewart
    “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”
    Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

  • #12
    Lee Maynard
    “I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”
    Lee Maynard

  • #13
    “Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

    [Indian Summer]”
    John Howard Bryant

  • #14
    Andrea Gibson
    “Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
    they're falling in love with the ground.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #15
    John Donne
    “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

    [The Autumnal]”
    John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    Albert Camus

  • #17
    Jim Bishop
    “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
    Jim Bishop

  • #18
    Jarod Kintz
    “I want to say something so embarrassing about September that even the leaves start blushing and turning red.”
    Jarod Kintz, I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

  • #19
    Lauren DeStefano
    “Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
    Lauren DeStefano, Wither

  • #20
    Marc Riboud
    “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
    Marc Riboud

  • #21
    Sam Levenson
    “Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”
    Sam Levenson

  • #22
    Veronica Roth
    “Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #23
    Mitch Albom
    “This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”
    Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson



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