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“The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distracting his own attention, and keeping down his terror, for the specter’s voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change—not a knocker, but Marley’s face. Marley’s face. It was not in impenetrable shadow, as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly forehead.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“What’s Christmas-time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books, and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Aunt Em has told me that the witches were all dead—years and years ago.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz