Demetrius-Bennett

“I feel ill,” he announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.” He tottered piteously to the stairs. “Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon,” he croaked as he went up then to bed.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Here she was on the other side of the grating—here she was at last, on the outside—looking in!”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

“And what if it were only a story?” said Mrs. May quickly, “so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don’t be so literal. Anything we haven’t experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

“Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
― Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby