❝ if a clock could count down to the moment you meet your soul mate, would you want to know? ❞

"Anna dislikes being stuck three-quarters of the way down a chimney. She really does. Not to mention, she's still going round North America, and there's, like, three continents still to get through in about as many hours."

In a village a hundred miles to the east lived a girl who has never celebrated Christmas. In a city a hundred miles to the west lived a boy who had never experienced a December without it.