Parenting Quote by 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

“By now Flora was really cross. Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?”

— Stella Gibbons

“And as Flora twirled, other girls and women came through the field in all directions. Our heartache poured into one another like water from…

— Alice Sebold

“...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.”

— Charles Dickens

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

— Kate DiCamillo

“I connect with the world of flora and experience the bliss of that connection!”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself.”

— Virginia woolf

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

— Daniel Handler

“To him, she was like a flower that bloomed in the snow. Thriving under conditions in which nothing could grow. To some, she was…

— A.Y. Greyson

“She would bloom where she was planted and let her roots close around the throats of her enemies.”

— Julie C. Dao

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left…

— Charles Dickens

“The biologist was coming down the hillside. In all her glory and monstrosity.”

— Jeff VanderMeer