My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

by Stephanie Perkins

Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything.

Everyone here is miserable, and we’re all just punching our time cards until we die.

“If I spend all my disappointment before breakfast, what will I go on for the rest of the day?”

“I will free you, and I will lift you. I will learn a thousand ways to make you laugh. Your smiles will be the honey in my mead, your enchantment my delight.”