I didnt know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. – Richard Brautigan
If you get hung up on everybody elses hang-ups, then the whole worlds going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. – Richard Brautigan
Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and garlands, below, and Christmas sunshine in the winter sky above. All faces shone, all voices had a cheery ring, and everybody stepped briskly on errands of good-will. – Louisa May Alcott, “Seamstress,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873