Xmastime Literary Connections, by Xmastime

And he wanted to be one of them, playing in the streets, un-frightened, moving with such grace and power, but he knew this could not be. - Go Tell It on a Mountain, James Baldwin

I'm sorry. The regatta is for families. See the kids in miniature life-jackets all blown up like rubber bath toys? See the parents hanging onto a pudgy arm lest a sudden gust capture their balloon child and send them surfing to the trees? It's for families, not for us. - Spill Simmer Falter Wither, Sara Baume

Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley