Mckinley

“Amelia Bedelia," said Mrs. Rogers,
"Christmas is just around the corner."
"It is?" said Amelia Bedelia. "Which corner?"
Mrs. Rogers lauhged and said,
"I mean tomorrow is Christmas Day."
"I know that," said Amelia Bedelia.”
― Peggy Parish, Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia

“След около половин час седяхме в ресторант „Неапол“ до един прозорец пред лекьосана покривка. Приятен блондин шеташе край нас, слагаше на масата някакви мезета, говореше с умалителни, краставиците наричаше „краставички“, хайвера „хайверче, разбирам“, и от него стана толкова топло и уютно, та забравих, че навън е непрогледна мъгла и дори престана да ми се струва, че Ликоспастов е змия.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Black Snow

“A necessary monster.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings

“He could understand that the creatures, the fish and the owls, should feed and frolic at moon-rise, at moon-down and at south-moon-over, for these were all plain marks to go by, direct and visible. He marvelled, padding on bare feet past the slat-fence of the clearing, that the moon was so strong that when it lay the other side of the earth, the creatures felt it and stirred by the hour it struck. The moon was far away, unseen, and it had power to move them.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under