A Wish for Winter Quotes

“You want someone, as you wrote in your poem so long ago, who makes you feel like the only gift in the room.”
― Viola Shipman, A Wish For Winter

“forever have the heart of a child, then Christmas—no matter the heartache we endure in life—will remain the way it was because we will always carry the two greatest gifts in life. Memories and hope.”
― Viola Shipman, A Wish For Winter

“Always remember if you forever have the heart of a child, then Christmas-no matter the heartache we endue in life-will remain the way it was because we will always carry the two greatest gifts in life. Memories and hope.”
― Viola Shipman, A Wish for Winter

“Women are moonlight. We reflect the light of those we love—our husbands, our children, our families, our friends. I think it’s time I’m the sunlight. Hire me.”
― Viola Shipman, A Wish For Winter

“No one’s life is lived in vain if their memory is celebrated,”
― Viola Shipman, A Wish For Winter

“Books expand our minds. They change our perspectives on the world. They allow us to escape, to hope, to dream, to mourn, to walk in someone else's shoes...They save lives.”
― Viola Shipman, A Wish for Winter

“January and February are long months in Michigan. The days are often cloud-filled and dark, and night falls in the early afternoon. My grampa used to always say it took a certain type of person to weather winter in Northern Michigan. Yes, one had to love the snow and cold, the dry skin, a running red nose and the warmth of a wood fire, and, yes, one had to be hearty of soul, but—more than anything—one had to be ever patient and hopeful.”
― Viola Shipman, A Wish For Winter