Nona Dramova

“The more I see of the world the more I realize how much we are haunted by our childhood dreams.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“He watched her for several minutes. Something was stirred in him, something not accounted for by the warm smell of the afternoon or the triumphant vividness of red. He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful — then of a sudden he understood: it was her distance, not a rare and precious distance of soul but still distance, if only in terrestrial yards. The autumn air was between them, and the roofs and the blurred voices. Yet for a not altogether explained second, posing perversely in time, his emotion had been nearer to adoration than in the deepest kiss he had ever known.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“-Hören Sie genau zu, ich werde es nur einmal sagen. - Mit Grabestimme flüstere ich ins Telefon. - Ich organisiere eine Überraschungsparty für Lukes Geburtstag. Die Sache ist streng geheim, und Sie sind der siebte Mensch auf der Welt, der davon erfährt.

Fast möchte ich hinzufügen: `Und jetzt muss ich Sie erschießen.´”
― Sophie Kinsella, Mini Shopaholic

“Hah! Avocados,’ he said, brightening. ‘How I love them. Cheer up, my little avocado,’ he said to me pinching my hand. ‘You know, these American girls are just like avocados. What do you think, am I right, Max? Who ever even heard of an avocado sixty years ago? Yes, that’s what we’re growing nowadays’. His avocado arrived and he looked at t lovingly. ‘The typical American girl,’ he said, addressing it. ‘ A hard center with the tender meat all wrapped up in a shiny casting.’ He began to eating it. ‘How I love them’ he murmured greedily. ‘So green - so eternally green.”
― Elaine Dundy