A Boy Called Christmas Quotes

'A Boy Called Christmas' was recently released on Netflix, and believe me it's a CHARMER. Directed by Gil Kenan ('City of Ember') and based on Matt Haig’s novel of the same name, 'Christmas'.

- To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid anymore.

- An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet.

- Perhaps a wish was just the hope with a better aim.

- To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That's the first elf rule. You can't see something you don't believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.

- Impossible. An old elf swearword.

- Home is not a place, it’s a feeling.

- We give what we have to show that we care.

- Hope. We all need hope. A spark of magic to keep us all going.

- I asked for something new, but we'd forgotten something we already had." Deep wisdom & utterly magical.

- So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to himself that, when he grew older, he'd try to be like his mother. Colorful, happy and kind, and full of joy.

- There was no use trying to think of a way because it was impossible. And the only way you could make something impossible real wasn't through logic or sensible thinking. No. It was to believe it could be done.

- Now, Nikolas was a happy boy.

Well, actually, no.

He would have told you he was happy if you asked him, and he certainly tried to be happy, but sometimes being happy is quite tricky. I suppose what I am saying is that Nikloas was a boy who believed in happiness, the way he believed in elves and trolls and pixies, but he had never actually seen an elf or a troll or a pixie, and he hadn't really seen proper happiness either. At least, not for a very long time. He didn't have it easy.

- How to be jolly even when times are bad 1. Eat more gingerbread, chocolate, jam and cake. 2. Say the word ‘Christmas’. 3. Give someone a present. Like a toy, or a book, or a kind word, or a big hug. 4. Laugh, even if there is nothing to laugh about. Especially then. 5. Think of a happy memory. Or a happy future. 6. Wear something red. 7. Believe. (extract from How to Be Jolly: The Father Christmas Guide to Happiness)

- Most people grow up gradually, over many years, but standing there in the still forest, Nikolas lost his childhood in a second. Nothing makes you grow up quicker than discovering your father is not the man you think he is.

- Trouble doesn’t always have to be caused. It’s sometimes already there.

- Everyone knew that the way to make something even lovelier was to put it in a pie.

- Every day, not only did he wear his red and white outfit, complete with shiny black belt and boots, but he was determined to be as jolly as could be because the easiest way to make other people happy was to be happy yourself, or at least to act as if you were. That was how his mother had done it. And even his father too, once upon a time.

- Back in Mother Ivy’s time I would have been obliged to cook you gingerbread and show you my spickle dancing, and yet now I have permission to chop you up into little pieces. I cry myself to sleep every night and feel dead inside, but society is definitely improving.

- Grief is the price we pay for love, and it's a million times worth it.

- The darkest night will end. The sun will rise, and Christmas mornings will come again, when anything and everything can happen: Aunt Carlotta

-K Himaanshu Shuklaa..