The Remains of Christmas Quotes

“But I can’t say that yet. Because all that is crazy. It’s insane to ask someone you just met yesterday to move in with you tomorrow. And neither of us are insane. So, in the meantime, you’ll just... be my girlfriend?” I smiled. “Until it’s not insane to be my wife.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“I looked like trouble, but I was traditional. I’d been blue collar, but I liked bougie. I liked security, warmth, and home. My goals involved one day having a closet full of black sheath dresses and season tickets to the symphony.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“He was a bone geek, a death worker. His hair was already down. He rolled. There’d always been a disconnect with my dating life, and it was one hundred percent because of me.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“The air bit into my skin where it was unprotected: my face, my hands, my neck. Daphne still had the scarf I’d looped around her neck this morning and the gloves I’d later lent her. I didn’t have the heart to ask for them back. I didn’t want them back. My lizard brain wanted her to keep them, let them comfort and warm her body, so she’d think of me every time she wore them.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“Rich white men have ways of making problems disappear.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“That’s not ‘Jingle Bells.’ I know that one. ‘Jingle Bells’ is Oh, what fun. You’re playing Shit, my life is over.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“I’ve never cried in your arms, but I don’t have to to know you’d hold me until my tears dried on your shirt. We haven’t seen each other through loss or hard times, but I know I’ll always hold space for you. I don’t know your greatest shame—besides me—or your greatest fears. I don’t know if you believe in a higher power, or how you vote, or what made you go into odontology, how many kids you want, or where you even buy eight-hundred-dollar pants, but I know you’re the one.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“DC Comics doesn’t have the moral ambiguity Marvel does. That’s what makes it interesting.” “You sound like a sixth grader.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas