Taylor Encalade

“Nancy thanked him, then went to her convertible. She drove carefully through the city traffic and finally reached Hilo Street. Mrs. Stewart’s apartment house was Number 76. Nancy scanned the buildings and found that this one was the largest on the street. It was ultramodern in design and about twenty stories high. After parking her car, she smoothed her hair and got out. A red-coated doorman nodded pleasantly to the young detective as she entered the building a minute later. Nancy checked the directory and saw that Mrs. Stewart was in Apartment Three on the fourth floor. She rang the elevator button. Almost instantly, aluminum doors slid open noiselessly, and Nancy stepped inside the carpeted elevator. It was self-operated, and Nancy pushed the fourth-floor control.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Bungalow Mystery

“I want to meet this one,” he said. “I need to meet the girl who has taken our wandering Alexander’s horse and cart.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

“No Metal, No Magic. Metal makes everything techno magical.”
― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Metal Horn Unicorns

“It may be normal, darling: but I'd rather be natural.”
― Truman Capote , Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories