“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
– Carol Bishop Hipps
“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown
“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
– Katie Nicole Felton
“Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, ‘Never take candy from strangers.’ And then they dressed me up and said, ‘Go beg for it.’”
– Rita Rudner
“Halloween is right around the corner. You can tell because all the stores are decked out for Christmas.”
– Stephen Colbert
“I see my face in the mirror and go, ‘I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?’”
– Drew Carey
“A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.”
– Lucy Van Pelt
October
Part melancholy and part magic
Wistfulness about it: Change hovering in the air
We feel an urge to slow down, to make the days linger.
The color vision month; the Slavs call this month yellow.
Someone once said it’s the time when you feel homesick for
someplace you’ve never been
Hal Borland, country life diarist, calls October “the year’s late
afternoon.”
Emily Dickinson said of Autumn, “It’s a little this side of snow
and that side of haze.”
OCTOBER IS MY FAVORITE COLOR (Debby, 2020)
“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.”
– Wednesday Addams
“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“As a kid, Halloween was amazing. You dress like a superhero, you bang on your neighbor’s door and they give you candy. I do that today and my neighbor wants me arrested.”
– Jim Gaffigan
“This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.”
– Conan O’Brien
“Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired.”
– Sylvester Stallone
“If you want to scare your boyfriend next Halloween, come dressed as what he fears most. Commitment.”
– Peter Nelson
(Photo: Silverbelle Sandy)
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”
– Hal Borland
“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson
“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker
“The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously.”
– Steve Sabol
“In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Falling for autumn and not getting up.”
– Unknown
“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.”
– Tim Burton
Meanwhile, around The Parsonage: