A December to Remember Quotes

“The winter solstice marks the longest night of the year and the promise that soon the sun will be back again. But winter is not merely a trial to be got through while we wait for warmer times. You must embrace the cold days and long dark nights and learn to find the joy in them, for there is much joy to be found. Hunker down and revel in the warmth of soft blankets when the weather is howling outside. Make the time to take time, not just for others but for yourselves. Read books, light candles, take long baths, watch the flames flickering in the fireplace or the rain dribbling down the windowpanes. Open your eyes to the beauty in the winter landscape and count your blessings every single day. Slow down. There will be time enough for buzzing around with the bees when the sun comes back. For now, let the moments stretch long and lazy. Recuperate, rejuvenate, reflect, and let winter soothe you. Let this winter solstice be the first of many times this winter that you come together to give thanks and appreciate the people in your life. Gratitude is everything. It is infinite, and even in death I know that the warmth of my gratitude for all of you lives on in the spirit of this season." -Augustus”
― Jenny Bayliss, A December to Remember

“if God is supposed to have created everything, she must also have had a hand in the seasons and the sun’s position in the hemisphere and the pagans who celebrated it. So to not support the winter solstice is kind of rude to God.”
― Jenny Bayliss, A December to Remember

“That’s the trouble with you young’uns. You think you’re so connected, with your snappy-chats and your clock-toks. You’re more likely to ask a virtual friend in Guatemala for advice than the people on your own doorstep.”
― Jenny Bayliss, A December to Remember

“I am a proper grown-up woman, with a potential to own plants.”
― Jenny Bayliss, A December to Remember

“She swallowed her sadness about Joe and stored it in the way that all good women trying to balance a million things had done for centuries: repress now, take antacids later.”
― Jenny Bayliss, A December to Remember

“Simone knew that her sister was staying close while giving her space. She appreciated it. She felt rinsed out. Tonight had been cathartic but exhausting. She wasn’t cured. She hadn’t expected to be. But her chest felt looser somehow. They took their drinks back into the sitting room, and Star pulled the two armchairs in front of the fire.”
― Jenny Bayliss, A December to Remember

“water. Where last night it had been a roiling storm, this evening her sadness lapped gently around her, unobtrusive and perpetual. Now it had arrived, she had the feeling it would be her long-term companion.”
― Jenny Bayliss, A December to Remember

“I want to live small and happy, I want to leave only the tiniest footprint on the world. Why isn't that something to aspire to? y life goal is to feel contentment; to me that's the only thing worth striving for" -Star”
― Jenny Bayliss, A December to Remember