Quotes from the World for Sunday 09/01/MXIII

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Alexander Theroux
Alexander Theroux (b. 1940), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. Darconville’s Cat, ch. 2, New York, Doubleday (1981).