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Lord love you," Ms. Eulalie said, "but you tell lies like Ms. Franny sings: hard to listen to and even harder to believe. — Kristin Walker

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

In a matter of only a few seconds, in fact, her eyes appeared to jettison everything that was dark and heavy and to glow with fan-club appreciation. — J.D. Salinger

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

Franny gave her sister a tired smile. "Oh, my love," she said. "What do the only children do?"

"We'll never have to know," Caroline said. — Ann Patchett

Ophelia always said Franny was the Fourth of July. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life. — J.D. Salinger

Your guilt's got nothing on my guilt," Franny said. "Your guilt isn't even in the ballpark. — Ann Patchett

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die. — Franny Armstrong

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands. — J.D. Salinger

Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before — Alice Sebold

Mrs. Glass watched him pull it on. She didn't stay for the tying of the lace, however.
Instead, she left the room. — J.D. Salinger

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

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it. — J.D. Salinger

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

Did I kill him?" I said.

"No, miss," said Robert.

"Pity. — Franny Billingsley

I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to. — Franny Armstrong

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

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

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

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

Franny, you are the genuine article. You are solid. You are certain. You are like a refrigerator. You hum. — Kate DiCamillo

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

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis. — Alvin Lee

Even a witch wants sympathy. — Franny Billingsley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go? — Alice Sebold

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

I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it. — Franny Armstrong

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

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

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

I just hope that one day - preferably when we're both blind drunk - we can talk about it. — J.D. Salinger

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

Safer than we are." I told Franny. "Safer than love." "let me tell ya kid," Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. "Everything's safer than love. — John Irving

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

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

For the love of all humanity, shake what your mama gave you! — Jim Benton

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night. — Franny Armstrong

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

Silence is golden for me. I live in the country and hear only my pets, birds, crickets, and the wind in the trees. — Franny Armstrong

I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day. — Daniel Humm

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

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable. — Emma Straub

I sighed and closed my eyes, thumping my head against the bookcase. You take biology? Oh yeah, Franny. What a great fucking pick-up line. — Tahlie Purvis

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

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