top of page
Exlpore more Seasons quotes

"And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rituals of summer, for they felt that now the final day, the final night had come. As the day grew late they realized that for two or three nights now, porches had emptied early of their inhabitants. The air hard a different, drier smell and Grandma was talking of hot coffee instead of iced tea; the open, white-flutter-curtained windows were closing in the great bays; cold cuts were giving way to steamed beef. The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground."

"Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond."

"Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye."

"When it is summer, enjoy it, but you must also prepare for winter."

"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."

"Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."

"I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod."
Explore more quotes by Darnell Lamont Walker

"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

"You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother."

"Sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions."

"Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over."

"The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside."
bottom of page