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“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.” — Sarah Kay

“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.” — Oliver Herford

“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December; evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.” – Lisa Kleypas

 “Yet my heart loves December’s smile as much as July’s golden beam; then let us sit and watch the while the blue ice curdling on the stream.” – Emily Jane Bronte

 “December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.” – John Geddes

“You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.” — Maya Angelou

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Simple Sunday-Merry Christmas

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“…freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night…”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Christmas ribbons decked every crystal ball knocker on every sparkling door as far as the eye could see. Through the snowy streets of the Veiled Village, Echoes and Sounds rushed to and fro, their shimmering clothes looking like pouring rain or ice or waves. Before them multi-colored parcels fluttered like strange birds carried on small see-through wings, and every once in a while two parcels would collide and rain down gifts.”
― Dew Pellucid

“Instead of protesting and cursing others because they write “X-Mas” instead of “Christmas”; try being Christmas. Live Christmas. Breathe Christmas. Act Christmas. Speak Christmas. Reflect Christmas. Listen and feel Christmas
Christ doesn’t care how you write Christmas; he cares how you live Christmas all year long.”
― Sandra Chami Kassis

“Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?!
Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to.
Calvin: Oh.”
― Bill Watterson, It’s a Magical World

“I don’t want Christmas season to end, because it’s the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.”
― Eloisa James, Paris in Love

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Simple Sunday- Winter

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“As winter approaches – bringing cold weather and family drama – we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.”- Sarah MacLean

“There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.”-Leo Sayer

“The best thing about a British winter is the cold weather, real fires, frosty mornings. I love living somewhere that has proper seasons.”-Jane Fallon

“And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.”-Elizabeth Gilbert

“Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.”-Susan Orlean

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“Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.”- Bill Nye

“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.” – Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“How could it be winter without snow?I appreciated every season, but winter was my favorite.I loved when it was time to pull out my thick sweaters.I loved the smell of a wood fire.I loved skiing and snow boarding and sledding, when i could find the time-although time was in a short supply when school was in session.I even enjoyed the cold, wintry weather, it was great for snuggling.” -Rachel Hawthorne, Suite Dreams

“Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.” – Toni Morrison, Beloved

“A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale

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“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” 
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.” 
― Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day

“Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” – George R.R. Martin

“It was the kind of snow that didn’t amount to anything on the ground. It would just dust the dead grass. The technical term for that level, he decided, was an “annoyance” of snow.” 
― Cassandra Clare, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

“In the winter, the snow had become glittery fairy dust that had given all the creatures of the meadow warm clothes and a fire to help them endure the winter.” 
― Carla Reighard, Elle’s Magical Shoes

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“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo

“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” – John Burroughs

“As winter approaches – bringing cold weather and family drama – we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.” -Sarah MacLean

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!” – J. R. R. Tolkien

“I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.” – Ernest Shackleton


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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Lives are snowflakes – unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There’s not a chance you’d mistake one for another, after a minute’s close inspection.)”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.”
― Vesta M. Kelly