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“Pepe absently thought, happy beyond words that he was actually holding hands with Lucia. Passing a stall with a particularly pungent odor of manure made Pepe falter, realizing a barn wasn't the mos...”
“Ouch. What is that?Water, you wimp. Humor colored his tone and when I looked up, he was smirking again, but this time it was different. He was beaming, radiatinglike he used to.”
“New Year eve is an ecstasy of new anticipation.”
“It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court, lit by the dim rays of a horn lantern, some eight or ten little field-mice stood i...”
“I wish you a Merry Christmas sparkle with endless love, gladness and goodwill.”
“I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a ...”
“Nobody expects you to understand the mind of God or know why he would love us in the midst of our weaknesss and sin.”
“I look at my snow boots, counting the grommets while I try to name what I'm feeling. This has been a problem lately. It's never been a problem beforeI've been happy, and sad, and frustrated.I've fe...”
“God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.”
“I don't mind the dark, and because it's Christmas, we've been busy putting lights up everywhere. High, so everyone knows we're okay.”
“Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said.”
“For me, there isn't some miracle cure, this is my life, or my disease will progress and my life will change focus again, and I'll have another new life.I need C to stay right where he is now becaus...”
“People think the only time the earth is renewed is in spring. I find its renewed around Christmastime when hard, old hearts are softened. When childrens laughter drowns out anguish. When magic tran...”
“I wonder if he practices making awkward and nerdy look sort of cool. Like he fills his house with furniture that is the wrong scale for his tall body and buys plaid shirts in bulk and tells his bar...”
“When you give a gift at Christmas and see the smile of the people you love reflected in their faces, that's magical. It is not about spending a lot of money or buy a gift that is functional, it's j...”
“Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.”
“I can't ignore his one-sided almost smile or his methylene blue eyes. I can't ignore his pretty shoulders or his arms. I can't ignore his big hands, his shoulder-blade-spanning hands, the way the t...”
“If you hate what you get for Christmas, try to focus on the person who gave the gift to you, not what came in the box.”
“Christmas comes but once a year, starts in August ends in July”
“When the hollys in the redAnd the pine is in the green,When the mornings all are frosty,In a brilliant silver sheenThen I love to go a walkingRambling here and there, quite slow,Plucking greenery a...”
