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“She turned her attention back to the carolers, to this neighborhood she was a part of, however briefly. It wasn't going to last, this little dream she'd found herself in. But that didn't mean she couldn't fall in love with every single moment of it. She just had to give herself permission.”
― Georgia K. Boone, I'll Be Gone for Christmas

“Mom you're not listening to me."
"I am, Clover." Her mother sucked in a harsh breath. "And you're wrong."
"How do you know?"
"Because I didn't raise you that way."
That way. Those two words had made Clover's world smaller than she'd ever thought possible. So small she felt as if she were suffocating.”
― Georgia K. Boone, I'll Be Gone for Christmas

“It was hard for some people to understand—how she could love him but not be in love with him. How she could still want him to be part of the fabric of her life but also not be, say, the mother of her children.
They didn't understand that, at the end of the day, he was still her best friend. Of everything she'd lost this past year, why couldn't she keep that?”
― Georgia K. Boone, I'll Be Gone for Christmas

“Her parents kept a record of her progress by tracking awards and titles.
Clover had simply had to grow.”
― Georgia K. Boone, I'll Be Gone for Christmas

“In Bee's family, appearances were everything, and part of the child-parent contract she'd signed out of the womb was making sure she was never idle, or at least never seemed to be so.”
― Georgia K. Boone, I'll Be Gone for Christmas

“But she also wondered, not for the first time, if she was stepping on her mother's memory by being here in the first place—the city her little high school crush had run off to.”
― Georgia K. Boone, I'll Be Gone for Christmas