Teddy

“The girl shook her head. “I feel I’m not wanted. The letter wasn’t cordial. Oh dear, what shall I do?” Nancy gave Laura a hug. “You’ll be at school and during vacations you can visit friends. And you have a new friend named Nancy Drew!”
― Carolyn Keene, The Bungalow Mystery

“Especially after I read Pete DeVries recent scintillant “Afternoon of a Faun.” There are ways and ways to have a love affair. Above all, one must not be serious about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Nancy, blue-eyed, and with reddish-gold glints in her blond hair, was at the wheel. She gazed anxiously across a long expanse of water to the distant shores of Twin Lakes. The Pinecrest Motel, where the eighteen-year-old girl and her older friend were staying, was almost two miles away on the smaller of the two lakes. Helen Corning, dark-haired and petite, looked at Nancy with concern. “I think we’re in for a cloudburst,” she said, “and Twin Lakes becomes as rough as the ocean in a storm.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Bungalow Mystery

“Alone, Franny lay quite still, looking at the ceiling. Her lips began to move, forming soundless words, and they continued to move.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey