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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