“Nobody thinks of the end of the year as a magic reset button, even if sometimes we talk about it like it is.”— Anne Thériault, flare.com
“I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself.”— Antonio Gramsci, viewpointmag.com
“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes.…”— Nora Ephron, moviequotedb.com
“Six weeks into the marriage, on New Year's Eve 1959, I wanted to go dancing with him at a nightclub. He said he'd rather get drunk with his brothers.”— Bettie Page, latimesblogs.latimes.com
“The last day of the old year: May the new one bring us good fortune, a safe deliverance from this anxious time & all good things to those we love so far away.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com
“And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.”— Franz Wright, awritersalchemy.blogspot.dk
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”— L.M. Montgomery, powerthetruth.com
“Red onion skins and New Year's Eve have much in common - they both peel away to reveal new vibrancy.”— Alex Morritt, amazon.com
“New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going--whether we know it or not, would deny it or not--by the kiss of a…”— Jardine Libaire, amazon.com
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.”— Robert Burns, amazon.com
“This is New Year's Eve. How about living it up a little?”— Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Joe Gillis, William Holden, amazon.com
“The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on New Years’ Eve.”— PJ O'Rourke, telegraph.co.uk
“A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be peace on earth for one entire day.”— Dorothea Benton Frank, amazon.com
“You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice ... the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.”— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.com
“New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.”— Alex Morritt, amazon.com
“The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment.”— Emily Griffin, amazon.com
“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.”— Alfred Tennyson, amazon.com