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In a Holidaze QUOTES

In a Holidaze QUOTES

1 " After we've stuffed ourselves, we scatter around the living room, falling into a comfortable quiet.
The living room is a majestic place - I mean, it is massive - with vaulted log ceilings and old wood floors covered in wide woven rugs. Along one long wall, the fire crackles and snaps, heating the room to just below too warm. It's wood from town and nothing smells like it. I want to find a candle of this, incense, room spray. I want every living room in every house I live in for the rest of time to smell like the Hollis cabin does on December evenings.
The hearth is expansive; when we were about seven, our chore was sweeping out the fireplace at the end of the holiday, Theo and I could almost stand up inside it. The flames actually roar to life. Even once they mellow into a rumbling, crackling simmer, the blaze still feels like a living, breathing creature in here with us. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

2 " I believe now that the universe delivers random acts of kindness, and it's on us to decide what to do with them. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

3 " Snug as a Luke in a Tauntaun isn't a saying yet, but we could make it happen. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

4 " I shuffle over to the tree, sliding beneath it and lying on my back so I can look up through the gnarled branches. It's a kaleidoscope of color and texture: the smooth light bulbs, the prickly pine needles. Ornaments of glass, and silk, and spiky metallic stars. A little wooden drummer Theo gave Ricky nearly twenty years ago. Laminated paper ornaments of our handprints from preschool, handmade ceramic blobs that were supposed to be pigs, or cows, or dogs. Nothing matches; there's no theme. But there is so much love in this tree, so much history. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

5 " I've essentially handed my heart over to the person who's had it on reserve for half my life, and I'm terrified that he doesn't realize what he's holding. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

6 " It never occurred to me that you might be mine. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

7 " The only person whose expectations you have to live up to is yourself. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

8 " Maybe we should do things because we love them, not because we’ve always done them that way. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

9 " I was coming out here to ask why you were acting so weird, but I see I need to keep things present tense. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

10 " It’ll be okay. Things always look worse from the inside. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

11 " I'm the human equivalent of a fart that clears the room. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

12 " You've never been for me, Maisie. I never knew you were an option. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

13 " I ask the universe, simply: Can you show me what will make me happy? "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

14 " I believe now that the universe delivers random acts of kindness, and it’s on us to decide what to do with them. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

15 " It’s just hard to know which choice is right until it’s all over, I guess. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

16 " I laugh because this feels genuinely impossible. How does one move on from a man so kind of heart and fine of ass? "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

17 " Every single point on Earth's surface is the center of someone's universe... The center of my world is right where I'm standing. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

18 " What am I doing with my life? Please. I want… I’m not even sure how to finish the sentence. I want to be happy, and I’m petrified that the path I’m on now is going to leave me bored and alone. So I ask the universe, simply: Can you show me what will make me happy? "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

19 " I’ve spent years not trusting my ability to make decisions and quietly letting life just happen to me. It can’t be a coincidence that the moment I stopped being passive and followed my instincts, everything seemed to fall into place. I know what makes me happy—trusting myself. What a gift, right? I found happiness. "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze

20 " Did I reveal my plans to overthrow the government and install Beyoncé in her rightful place as our fearless leader? "

― Christina Lauren , In a Holidaze