„Carter, not to be unkind,” I said, “but the last few months you’ve been seeing messages about Zia. Two weeks ago, you thought she was sending you a distress call in your mashed potatoes.””It was a Z! Carved right in the potatoes!“

— Rick Riordan
„Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce…“
— Cassandra Clare
„Who said anything about slicing you up?… I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„A "food cycle" is a period in which we have only one particular dish or type of vegetable to eat. For a long time we ate nothing but endive. Endive with sand -, endive without sand, endive with mashed potatoes, endive-and-mashed potato casserole. Then it was spinach, followed by kohlrabi, salsify, cucumbers, tomatoes, sauerkraut, etc., etc.“
— Anne Frank
„And at last we've got to the end of this ideal racecourse! Now that you accept A and B and C and D, of course you accept Z.""Do I?" said the Tortoise innocently. "Let's make that quite clear. I accept A and B and C and D. Suppose I still refused to accept Z?""Then Logic would take you by the throat, and force you to do it!" Achilles triumphantly replied. "Logic would tell you, 'You can't help yourself. Now that you've accepted A and B and C and D, you must accept Z!' So you've no choice, you see.""Whatever Logic is good enough to tell me is worth writing down," said the Tortoise. "So enter it in your notebook, please. We will call it(E) If A and B and C and D are true, Z must be true.Until I've granted that, of course I needn't grant Z. So it's quite a necessary step, you see?“
— Lewis Carroll
„I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.“
— Rick Riordan
„Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late.~Carter Kane“
— Rick Riordan