Communication Quote by Stella Gibbons

“He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite…

— Stella Gibbons

“...these were the kind of idiotic words her parents spoke. And they said these the words to each other, even though they were pretending…

— Kate DiCamillo FLORA ULYSSES THE ILLUMINATED ADVENTURES

“Dammit, Flora, why do you always ruin everything? A prophetic remark. I hope you picked up on that.”

— Daniel Handler

“she sipped tea and surrendered her afternoon to reading about the flora of Cairn Ocland. She wanted something to discuss with the man of…

— Vivienne Savage

“Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists call a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow…

— Stella Gibbons

“She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.”

— Megan Hart

“All of which Flora said with so much headlong vehemence as if she really believed it. There is not much doubt that when she…

— Dickens, Charles

“Flora’s heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.”

— Kate DiCamillo

“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”

— Rachel Abbott

“He found her beautiful, if a bit strange and sour. It was something in the way that her eyes sparked when she looked at…

— Sarah J. Maas

“She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.”

— Veronica Rossi

“She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a…

— Katherine Mansfield