Evocative quote of the day

   

     “The rapid nightfall of mid-December had quite beset the little village as they approached it on soft feet over a first thin fall of powdery snow.”
     Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows*

    The Royal Society of Literature is to be commended on its choice of header quotations for its monthly newsletters; I've used one before, December's is above, and I offer you October's rather lovely one below:

    “October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

 

*See also.