Franny Billingsley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.”
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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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“Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.”
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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 explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down.”
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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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“Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?”
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“My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.”
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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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“Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate her exhibiting a touch of melancholy. Also acceptable would be despair.”
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“Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.”
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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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“I’m not really the sacrificing type.”
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“I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her ever so slowly and gently. They don’t realize how very intelligent Rose really is. They’re just terrifically pleased with themselves. Look at me! they all but shout. See how broad-minded I am! How wonderfully progressive, how fantastically twentieth century!”
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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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“Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.”
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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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“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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“A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.”
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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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“You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.”
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“It’s one thing if a person learns you’re a witch. It’s quite another if he learns you’re a murderer. I almost forget I’m a witch now that I know I’m a murderer—murderess, actually. Murderess sounds so much worse.”
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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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“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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“Blast Cecil!” said Eldric. “You have my permission,” I said.”
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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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“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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“I am entirely well,” said Eldric, “which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being a man of science, I don’t care about understanding. I simply want to go outside and break a few windows.”
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“He scooped up my arm, swung me round. “Let go, Cecil,” I said. “I’ve a strange dislike of being forced.” “But Briony,” he said, “I’m so full of good spirits. I could walk to London, I think!” Why didn’t he?”
-- Franny Billingsley
