The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully. – Henry Rollins, “Empowerment Through Libraries,” November 2013, LAWeekly

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring! – Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy draughts that bit at exposed hands and faces. – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, “The Lion and the Serpe