Rice cakes and moonlight : Murasaki Shikibu
One disaster after another : Miguel de Cervantes
"Curst be he that moves my bones" : William Shakespeare
Chocolate for breakfast : Jane Austen
Ugly duckling or litte mermaid? : Hans Christian Andersen
Imp of the perverse : Edgar Allan Poe
From raisin pudding to oysters and champagne : Charles Dickens
Currer and Ellis Bell : Charlotte and Emily Brontë
Hide-and-seek : Emily Dickinson
Paddling her own canoe : Louisa May Alcott
Killingly funny : Mark Twain
The fairy godmother : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Into the mountains of the moon : Robert Louis Stevenson
Cannibal sandwiches : Jack London
Potato face blind man : Carl Sandburg
She jumped at the sun : Zora Neale Hurston
The perfect companion : Langston Hughes
Blintzes stuffed with cheese : Isaac Bashevis Singer.
