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“There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor…

— Emil M. Cioran

“Today was a day for sailing and drinking, for bobbing out under the blazing sun until the sky flipped over into dark and the…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“It was the happiest Christmas Eve he had ever spent. To quote his own words, he had a rotten Christmas.”

— H.H. Munro

“But during the day... that was life. The collection of small details that made up a shared day were what gave richness to what…

— Anne Bishop

“On Christmas Day, the promise of peace offered a soft and shining light in dark times, an eternal flame that warfare could not douse,…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“But doesn't every precious era feel like fiction once it's gone? After a while, certain vestigial sayings are all that remain. Decades after the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when…

— Joan Didion

“Their lives had stopped, frozen, as if in a picture, and the days were nothing more than empty squares on a calendar.”

— Tom Franklin

“But 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…

— Charles Dickens

“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of…

— Bob Hope

“It’s so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that’s the worst in your life, but to everybody else it’s…

— R.J. Palacio

“In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such…

— Gerald Durrell