„Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unawarehe had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.“

— Tim Burton
„I hastened to quench a thirst that had been burning a hole in the mixed metaphor of my life ever since I had fondled a quite different Dolly thirteen years earlier.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale.“
— Cassandra Clare
„If I had known this, I would've put that patch on thirty-five years earlier.“
— John Wayne