“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep.”
“Olle had just opened his mouth to ask, when Uncle Hoarfrost rushed toward the old woman and screamed: ‘Are you here again? Off with you at once, and don’t you dare stick your nose here again until Spring comes!”
“It seemed impossible that so many wishes could ever come true, what with the horrid old stuffed owl making dire threats and Peter losing the shop key _ but , as you will see, wishes sometimes do come true.”