Ryan

“The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple and scarlet.”
― Washington Irving, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

“The death of the warrior or the old man or the little child, this I understand, and I take away the pain and end the suffering. I do not understand this death-of-the-mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic