Mariah Carey Christmas Quotes

My siblings and my mother wouldn’t communicate for most of the year, so by Christmas dinner my brother and sister would come stuffed with hurt and anger, starving for attention. Eventually, inevitably, they would all explode in a torrent of verbal abuse. I would sit there in the center of the chaos, crying and wishing: wishing they would stop screaming, wishing my mother could stop them from screaming and cursing. Wishing I could be somewhere safe and merry—somewhere that felt like Christmas

Once I got my deal I exhaled, and my life began... I live Christmas to Christmas, celebration to celebration, festive moment to festive moment, not counting my birthday or ages.” pxiii

... I’ve always been a tragically sentimental person, and Christmas time embodies that sentimentality for me. I wanted to write a song that makes me happy and makes me feel like a loved, carefree young girl at Christmas… I also believe that somewhere inside I knew it was too late to give my brother and sister peace, and my mother her wonderful life, but I could possibly give the world a Christmas classic instead.” p21

If that Mariah Carey song came on, I might have to quit.

Just at that moment Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is You" blasts over the store speakers. The beauty counter saleswoman ask her “Would you like gift wrap?” Robin Lea sighs “No I'll just take it to go. Thank you”.

I really don't want a lot for Christmas – particularly not the cops.