Once in rur-al Flathead coun-tyStood a cru-wel Christmas sceneDumped for slaugh-ter were the rein-deerWhen an elf did intervene.

You're pretty low maintenance, as women go.""I am, am I?" She sounded amused."Yeah. Like a cactus.

She tossed a handful of snow at his face, then shrieked as the wind whipped it back into her own.Red hooted. "Karma's a boomerang, sweetheart. Don't forget it.

Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.

Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.

I hope you brought your handcuffs, " she added. "I won't go quietly.""I might use them anyway, for fun, " he answered, remembering the sensation of her warm lips against his.

Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.

I'm named after my father, Rudolph, " he said, then shot her a stern look. "But if you connect that with my red nose --

Great. He had a ranch with no power, a burgeoning blizzard, animals depending on him and now, a frightened, felonious elf to look after.

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.

I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

I've got a thing for footwear; I have about 200 pairs of shoes from all over the world.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.