Franny Billingsley Quotes - Page 3

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• How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

  Franny Billingsley

  Inspiring Love, World, Spiritual Love

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• I hated myself, but I also loved myself in a hateful way.

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  Way, Hateful, Hated

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.177, A&C Black

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

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  Please, Ifs

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• You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.

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  Names, Mind, Tongue

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.233, A&C Black

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• Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns Briony's heart to stone. Pressure. Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.

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  Stars, Heart, Moon

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.134, A&C Black

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• Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone had at least taken the time to touch my face.

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  Taken, Faces, Remember

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.113, A&C Black

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• The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.' 'Then you'll be able to distinguish me from Rose.' The handkerchief paused. 'I could tell you apart from the beginning. You're quite different to each other, you know.' Perhaps he could tell, in the obvious ways. The odd one was Rose; the other odd one was Briony.

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  Odd One, Rose, Different

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.108, A&C Black

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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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  Boys, Beats, Said

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.106, A&C Black

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• I don't like my shoes,' said Rose. 'I'm wearing my shoes and you don't see me complain.' 'You only hear a person complain,' said Rose. 'Not see.' How has Rose lived for seventeen years and no one has killed her, not once?

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  Sister, Years, Shoes

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.101, A&C Black

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• I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.

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  Rude, Genius, Calling

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.79, A&C Black

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• When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano along with it. Rose screams on the note B flat. We don't need a piano anymore now that we have a human tuning fork.

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  Piano, Rose, Library

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.39, A&C Black

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• There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.

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  Mind, Pearls, Fireworks

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.113, Penguin

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

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  Principles, Picnics, Taste

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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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  Jesus, Father, Fall

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.20, Penguin

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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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  Girl, Eye, Cutting

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.152, A&C Black

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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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  Mind, Looks, Said

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.147, A&C Black

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

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  Practice, Mask, Ought

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.137, A&C Black

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• Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

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  Want, Dots, Find Me

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.217, Penguin

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