“Sounds awful."
"No, it's wonderful. And it's just for one year. Let's take a break. Blair's not here. she'll be back next year and we can jump back into the Christmas chaos, if that's what you want. Come on, Nora, please. We skip Christmas, save the money, and go splash in the Caribbean for ten days."
"How much will it cost?"
"Three thousand bucks."
"So we save money?"
"Absolutely."
"When do we leave?"
"High noon, Christmas Day."
They stared at each other for a long time.”
― John Grisham, quote from Skipping Christmas
“My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture.”
― John Grisham, quote from Skipping Christmas
“This is a free country...you can do almost anything you want.”
― John Grisham, quote from Skipping Christmas
“(He) paused for a second and once more marveled at the speed with which one person's private business could be so thoroughly kicked around the neighborhood.”
― John Grisham, quote from Skipping Christmas
“He was not the nostalgic type. You live life today, not tomorrow, certainly not yesterday, he always said.”
― John Grisham, quote from Skipping Christmas
“For her, the holidays began in late October and steadily gathered momentum until the big bang, a ten-hour marathon on Christmas Day with four meals and a packed house.”
― John Grisham, quote from Skipping Christmas
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“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from What's Wrong with the World
“[...] one louing howre
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre”
― Edmund Spenser, quote from The Faerie Queene
“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years.”
― William Faulkner, quote from A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
“I don’t understand,” said the scientist, “why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves.” “How curious,” said the lemming. “The one thing I don’t understand is why you human beings don’t.”
― James Thurber, quote from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
“Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little.” “What gap are you talking about?” “There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one’s will.”
― Carlos Castaneda, quote from A Separate Reality
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