“Oh, is that all youre looking forward to - a break from your studies? He peered down at her with a knowing smirk.”

“She shivered as a blustery wind rushed past. Shed made a mistake in returning to the city. She shouldve stayed in the castle with Antoine. Shed be warm in his arms right now, instead of being held ...”

“Better undead than dead.”

“Nothing would keep him from loving her. She was everything he wanted. She was his.”

“When we wake, its officially Christmas Eve. Good. Because I have something special to give you. She turned over her shoulder and cocked an eyebrow. Thought you just did. He chuckled, a deep and th...”

“Oh, is that all you’re looking forward to - a break from your studies?” He peered down at her with a knowing smirk.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”

“I want my world to start and end with you.”

“You know how you have a good meal and you got gravy left on the plate. The gravy was so good that you dont want to leave it on the plate but you dont want to be a pig about it? So you take your bre...”

“She rubbed her cheek on his chest like a sleepy cat. I like when you hold me.Dios, she was going to break his heart. I like when I hold you too.”

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”

“There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”

“We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.”