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“Turkey is the main course in more Christmas dinners than any other meat or fowl. The high proportion of meat to unusable bone and fat makes it an ideal bird for a feast. Turkeys were domesticated i...”
“Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.”
“Ooh! Willy pipes up. Maybe he'll write a story about Santa and Mrs. Claus getting caught with their pants down with other people. If we get lucky, maybe he'll kill-Don't finish that sentence, elf.R...”
“I had hard feelings around the holidays, the one time of year I couldnt help but fall prey to the canned self-pity Christmas prescribes.”
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.”
“It's just sex, Blake. Isn't that what you said to me the last time? No emotions. Just sex.I'll only end up hurting you, I say to the wall. Worse than I did before.He moves from the back of the sofa...”
“Mrs. Casey, do you love Christmas? Well you know, she answered reflectively, Christmas can be a sad time for people too. It's a remembering time for us older ones. We remember the people who are go...”
“A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.”
“Enjoying your Christmas in the land of the dead? Fun and different, right?”
“I always remember your own grandmother, she continued, nodding her head, old Mrs. Taylor. She died on a Christmas Night.Oh, I said shivering. I wouldn't like to die on a Christmas Night. A good nig...”
“The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.”
“There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long ...”
“Have a drink, Coughffles. Stop it with the names! I laughed and coughed.”
“So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups claimed were made by little elves wearing bell caps in their workshop at the North Pole actually ...”
“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!Now, please dont ask why. No one quite knows the reason.It could be his head wasnt screwed on just right.It could be, perhaps his shoes were t...”
“Life's not always a bed of noses. "We've been put on this earth to do good, and as long as you can put you hand on yer heart and say you've done yer best you can gan to yer rest with an easy consci...”
“The entirety of his life to this point had merely been to prepare him for what he was to do next: bring hope to the hopeless and joy to the joyless. He would serve mankind by reminding them every y...”
“He disowned me, I murmured. Kicked me out and told me to come back when I changed my choice.He seriously used those words? That it was a choice?I nodded. You cant change it. Your sexuality is like ...”
“If you can't find the spirit of the holidays in your heart, you'll never find it under a tree.”
“For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.”
