"This is extremely important. Will you please tell Santa that instead of presents this year, I just want my family back."

"You'll shoot your eye out!"

"You're skipping Christmas! Isn't that against the law?"

"What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!"

"I don't know what to say, but it's Christmas, and we're all in misery."