I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass. (Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar") >> More Sylvia Plath Quotations...
You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change. (Nick Hornby, "High Fidelity") >> More Nick Hornby Quotations...
But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas. (P.C. Cast, "Chosen") >> More P.C. Cast Quotations...
And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen. (Mark Haddon, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time") >> More Mark Haddon Quotations...
Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban. (J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone") >> More J.K. Rowling Quotations...
She was in the downstairs bathroom sneaking bites from the macaroons my father's firm always sent us for Christmas. She ate them greedily they were like suns bursting open in her mouth. (Alice Sebold, "The Lovely Bones") >> More Alice Sebold Quotations...