"I salute to you Commander
and I sneeze
'Cause I have Now
an Allergy
To your policies it seems

Where have we gone wrong America?
Mr. Lincoln we can't seem
to find you anywhere out of the millions
From the deserts
To the mountains
Over prairies
To the shores
Is this just the Madness of King George
Yo George
Is this just the Madness of King George
Yo George
Well you have the whole Nation
on all fours. "
— Tori Amos

"It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by."
— Rumer Godden (The Dolls' House)

"He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language."
— Angela Carter (Wayward Girls and Wicked Women)

"Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart..."
— Kate DiCamillo (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane)

"I put my hands on her shoulders and said "slemp."
Then she put hers on mine and said "slemp.""
— Ann M. Martin