“September showed up right on schedule, and lasted a whole month.”

“Love doesn't follow a schedule - it just shows up, usually when you least want it to.”

“All the months are crude experiments out of which the perfect September is made.”

“The dawn that Anna feared might never come would appear on schedule, just as it always had - and after it another, and another. And yesterday would become Last Month, then Last Winter, then Last Year, then Two and Five and Ten Years Ago, and one day the people would have to stop and think before they could say how long ago it was ...”

“It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason.”

“My breath slipped from me, almost a groan. Trent Kalamack. The obscenely successful, smiling businessman, ruthless bio- and street-drug lord, elf in hiding, and pain-in-my-ass-extraordinaire Trent Kalamack. Right on schedule. "Why is it you show up only when I need money?”