The Christmas Wish Quotes

“Make a wish for yourself then make it come true, don’t leave the important things up to anyone else, not even fate.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Loneliness is how you know something is missing,’ I said. ‘Feeling lonely means you haven’t given up hope.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Tomorrow is nothing more than yesterday’s today. Think on it.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“I’d tethered myself to a life I wasn’t even sure I wanted and at no point had I stopped to ask myself why.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“I could fill a library with my memories of you, Gwen Baker,”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“More than three months and I still couldn’t hear his name without wanting to wash my hair in honey and headbutt a beehive.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“But you love Christmas. You’re obsessed with Christmas.’ ‘Don’t exaggerate”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“If I could have read minds, I’d have sworn he was wondering whether or not Dominos delivered on Christmas.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Now, do you want to tell your mum and dad what’s going on or would you prefer not to spend Christmas Day in a straitjacket?”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Because you look just like Phil Mitchell on Eastenders when he was doing the crack cocaine”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Who knew true love could blossom from Christmas dick pics?”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“The Little Mermaid was the perfect example of someone who didn’t read the fine print. Make a deal with a Sea Witch, almost end up as plankton. And I never had been convinced of their happily ever after, emotionally healthy young men don’t marry a sixteen-year-old fish-child simply because they’re very pretty, good at karaoke and their dog likes them. That marriage was doomed from the start.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Whatever else it might be, I do know loneliness can be very cruel. You can’t pick and choose when it visits and it often overstays its welcome, sometimes it stays so long you get used to it and forget to ask it to leave. I would hate for you to fall into that trap.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“She wasn’t going to ask me about my job but she was going to panic about me becoming a penniless spinster. Classic mothering.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Life was not a rollercoaster and you did not just have to ride it. It was more like one of those rental scooters that had popped up around the city: mostly fun, sometimes unpredictable, but frequently impossible to control and occasionally trying to kill you.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“I wasn’t sure of anything anymore. When someone waved a red flag you were supposed to stop, not wave back and keep on going because the map you’d been following for ages told you to. Roads changed, bridges crumbled. Old maps needed to be replaced with new ones. Sometimes you had to find a new way to get to your destination.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“could fill a library with my memories of you, Gwen Baker,’ he said before pushing off the wall and sailing away down the pool.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Manny looked at Drew, Drew looked at Manny and in that moment, something wonderful happened. ‘Mr_Meat_88?’ Manny said, his eyes wide. ‘If_You_Seek_Manny_69?’ Drew gasped. ‘Ew,’ I whispered.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“It was entirely possible for two grown adults to enjoy a platonic relationship even if one of the two once used a rudimentary computer program to see what their future children would look like and had developed a mild but more recent obsession with his forearms.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Arthur plays football?’ I asked. ‘No, they’re all Artemis. She’s keeping her options open in case she decides to bring down civilization via sports, the arts or tech.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“The whole time I was waiting at the bar, I wracked my brains for the right thing to say. I had two degrees, spent at least two hours a day absorbing all the wisdom Instagram had to offer and as everyone who had ever met me already knew, once, at a Q&A about Hamilton, I asked a question and Lin Manuel Miranda said I raised a good point. But right now when I was most needed, I couldn’t come up with a single helpful thing.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“People don’t always see what’s right in front of them,’ he replied lightly. ‘Especially when it’s been around forever.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“And he was probably right, I couldn’t bring on the apocalypse by peeking through a window. Said the girl who was on her sixth Christmas Day in a row.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“It always makes me feel like I’m in an Austen adaptation,’ I said, choosing to ignore the fact Elizabeth Bennet would never have slipped in a pile of sheep excrement in front of Mr Darcy.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Whose idea was it to go vegan for six months, Michael? Not me! But I did it. I even stopped drinking Diet Coke because you told me to.’ ‘Diet Coke is poison,’ he snapped. ‘Poisonous and delicious,’ I countered.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Shit. Shit shit shit. Somehow my terribly flawed and poorly executed plan had failed.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“I didn’t want this man with a haircut I didn’t recognize. I wanted the comfort and stability of our previous life – but that life was gone, forever. It was like getting back into a hot bath gone cold. Even if you added more warm water, it would never really be the same.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“There I was, telling my dad to let his feelings out, telling my mum she needed to put herself first and now I was about to beg the man who’d broken my heart to take me back? What was wrong with me?”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“I know what I think about Britney Spears, that’s quite enough.’ ‘What do you think about Britney Spears?’ I asked, incredibly curious. ‘I think she’s been through it,’ Nan said with a ferocious look. ‘And I should like to have a word with her parents.’ Me and her both.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish

“Keeping everything inside doesn’t make it hurt less, Dad, you’re just sealing it up to fester.”
― Lindsey Kelk, The Christmas Wish