Florence Proffer

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.”
― Wilkie Collins, I Say No

“Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“Dialogue launches language, the mind, but once it is launched we develop a new power, “inner speech,” and it is this that is indispensable for our further development,”
― Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf