Erich Maria Remarque

Maybe the fall has hit me harder than you. In the fall all pacts are suspended. In the fall people only want ... What do we want in the fall?"
"Love," I said.

"It's fall," she said, with one of her abrupt changes of mood. "It's a hard season to live through even without being alone."

Tjaden and Muller have dug out a couple of washing bowls from somewhere and got him to fill them up to the brim as a reserve supply.