Christmas Bells Quotes

“We used to say he must've met you in the fiction section.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“On Christmas Day, the promise of peace offered a soft and shining light in dark times, an eternal flame that warfare could not douse, nor hatred extinguish.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“All people—white and colored, slave and free, Union and Confederate—shared a common humanity belied by their outward differences. In a time of discord, in a land torn by war, no truth was more important to remember than that.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“May the New Year be as full of happiness and peace and friendship.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“What's the point of having the personal cell phone number of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff if you don't call him every once in a while?”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“...any poet who writes for the world beyond his own threshold should have something in his nature of the statesman.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“they’ll evoke fond memories, and they may bring you some comfort.” Henry could not imagine such a day, but he thanked her. “The girls will cherish”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“as if Laurie had recited the Apostles’ Creed in perfect Latin, and resumed tidying up the pews, humming along with the choir, occasionally making brief, quiet remarks to no one in particular, in a tone that was both friendly and respectful. She was just thinking”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“Pluribus Unum. In my view that does not refer only to states, but also to our varied people. Whatever brought these strangers together in this place—chance, fate, or divine intervention—their lives will be forever transformed, forever bound together even if only by the slenderest of threads, because they shared stories.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“Christmas Sonatina by Carl Reinecke”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“It’s painful to be the one not chosen,” she murmured to Father Ryan, watching the younger pair. “Even when you acknowledge, deep down, that the choice was the right one, it hurts to think that the one you love prefers someone else.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“Paul had often told her that humanity’s most precious commodity was time—“Not love,” he had emphasized, “not because it’s less important, but because you can run out of time, while love can be endlessly replenished”—”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells

“Upon reflection, Henry found it difficult to disagree with Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune and frequent critic of the Lincoln administration, when he complained that the president had emancipated slaves where the Union could not free them and had kept them enslaved in places where the Union did enjoy the power to give them liberty.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Christmas Bells