Franny Billingsley Short Quotes

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Did I kill him? I said. No, miss, said Robert. Pity.

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My own mask stayed just where it ought. I've had lots of practice.

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A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.

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You could at least complain, I say. I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.

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Father sighed. Please spare me these arguments of yours. Whose arguments should I use?

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It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

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That's where proper stories begin, don't they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

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I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

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People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much.

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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.

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You don't mind when he stares at you. Cecil jerked his head toward Eldric. "He doesn't stare, I said. He looks.

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Our English monarchs are so unimaginative, said Eldric. They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

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I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

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Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

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Perhaps you should put your head down. I knew this was the thing to do, although I've never fainted and I don't intend to.

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Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

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Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don't know how you got from one to the next.

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Now that's true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.

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A poem doesn't come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.

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I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.

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Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I'll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.

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He's harmless, poor thing. That's what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn't mean I have to like them.

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The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil. 'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't do it properly. I'm touchy about these things.

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But witchy magic doesn't listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn't really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

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Poor Petey. I'd like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I'd rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.

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I hope you don't mind my joining you, said Leanne. I minded. After all, she'd tried to kill me. A girl in a novel would say it was hard to believe, but it wasn't.

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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

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Boxing's not that straightforward, said Eldric. You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

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It wasn't quite a question. It was more of an invitation to tell him whatever I chose. Eldric game me a choice, and it was this that made me want to tell him everything.

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Let's hope she's like the others, who look only at the surface. Let's hope she'd never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

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