Daily dialogue — December 25, 2008
“On Christmas Eve many years ago I laid quietly in my bed. I did not rustle the sheets, I breathed slowly and silently. I was listening for a sound I was afraid I’d never hear: the sound of Santa’s sleigh bells.”
— Hero Boy (Tom Hanks), The Polar Express (2004), screenplay by Robert Zemeckis & William Broyles Jr., based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg