Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. William Allingham
So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past. Nicole Krauss
It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves. Jane Austen
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves. Anna Akhmatova
I'm in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves. Suzanne Collins
A title as meaningless as the woman bearing it. The Empress-just another face she'd seen somewhere before, a mask behind which someone hid from mortality. "No use hiding,” she whispered, frowning down at the dead leaves and branches around her. "No use.”. Steven Erikson