“I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” 

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

 “Later in the winter I'd tire of the snow, but Christmas snow was different.” 

― Marie Landry, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year