Colin Coache

“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

“But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house.

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A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted