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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. — Franny Billingsley

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

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

How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world? — Franny Billingsley

Witches don't look like anything. Witches are. Witches do. — Franny Billingsley

You mind your tongue!"
"Oh, I do," I said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name. — Franny Billingsley

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

How true, lamentably true. I'm sorry, Father. I do not love my neighbor as myself. — Franny Billingsley

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity. — Franny Billingsley

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. — Franny Billingsley

...if you don't argue, you can't give in... — Franny Billingsley

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

Did I kill him?" I said.

"No, miss," said Robert.

"Pity. — Franny Billingsley

You could at least complain," I say. "I adore complaining. It calms the nerves. — Franny Billingsley

Darling! Had they darlinged each other when they were here? I imagined them, magnificent on horseback, tossing darlings to and fro. — Franny Billingsley

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

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. — Franny Billingsley

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

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

A person might get angry when the girl he loves says she'll never marry. — Franny Billingsley

I'd rather be in Hell with my soul and wits, than in the outside world without them. — Franny Billingsley

Briony scared?" said Eldric. "I've never seen anyone less scared in my life. She has nerves of iron. — Franny Billingsley

I'm not really the sacrificing type. — Franny Billingsley

Forge ahead, O mighty enforcer of the law. May you be stout of heart and eardrum. — Franny Billingsley

You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered. — Franny Billingsley

A toast at your wedding, perhaps?" said Eldric.
"I shall never get married," I said. "But I do like champagne. — Franny Billingsley

Even a witch wants sympathy. — Franny Billingsley

Some secrets are wrong and ought to be told. — Franny Billingsley

It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie. — Franny Billingsley

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. — Franny Billingsley

It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better. — Franny Billingsley

If there were such a thing as a vampire-puppy-dog, it would be Cecil. Big pleading eyes, asking for an ear-scratch and a nice warm bowl of blood. — Franny Billingsley

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

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. — Franny Billingsley

I hated myself, but I also loved myself in a hateful way. — Franny Billingsley

Blast Cecil!" said Eldric. "You have my permission," I said. — Franny Billingsley

I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please — Franny Billingsley

Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours."
"Whose arguments should I use? — Franny Billingsley

The only right memory, is the one that first comes to you. — Franny Billingsley

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. — Franny Billingsley

Smash the table, why don't you? Kick things about. It's ever so nice to see you embrace the true spirit of the Fraternitus. — Franny Billingsley

Death had no lips, but it was smiling — Franny Billingsley

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. — Franny Billingsley

Eldric wore his lazy lion's smile. He didn't mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person. — Franny Billingsley

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

The problem I have telling my secret', said Eldric, 'is that it's a secret. — Franny Billingsley

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. — Franny Billingsley

Our parents teach us the very first things we learn. They teach us about hearts. — Franny Billingsley

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

Sometimes, of course, the sister's the wicked one, not the stepmother. — Franny Billingsley