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"Birthday is a glorious day."
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"There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book."
"Christmas is a sacred festival. It is celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together."
"Don't spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes."
"But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold anymore and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting."
"And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we're on a grand adventure when we've completely forgotten what an adventure is."
"Christmas united us as holy beings. We experience love, joy and peace."
"Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy."
"The Christmas spiritwhispers softly in my ear,"Go be of good cheer."
"The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out."
"A day of birth is a glorious event."
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