“The house was very quiet, and the fog we are in November now pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
"It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."
- E.M. Forster
Love
"I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."
- E.M. Forster
Love
"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
- E.M. Forster
Compassion
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- E.M. Forster
Transformation
"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
- E.M. Forster
Courage
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature