Franny Billingsley Quotes

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• Even a witch wants sympathy.

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  Sympathy, Want, Witch

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.130, A&C Black

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• Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

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  Looks, Witch

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.291, A&C Black

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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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  Believe, Love You, World

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.361, A&C Black

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• When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from dot number 1 to dot number 2 and so on. Most of all, I loved the moment when the chaotic sprinkle of dots resolved itself into a picture. That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble.

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  Games, Play, Drawing

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.45, Penguin

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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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  Caring, Magic, Monsters

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.59, A&C Black

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• Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

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  People, Way, Said

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.48, A&C Black

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

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  Thinking, People, Florence Nightingale

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.41, A&C Black

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

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  Rain, Sunshine, Sky

  Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.

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  Memories, Knowing, People

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.164, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Mind, Depth, Admitting

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.92, Penguin

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

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  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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• 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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  Intelligent, Rose, Mind

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.46, Penguin

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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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  Stories, Handsome, Stranger

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.2, A&C Black

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• You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.

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  Complaining, Nerves, Calm

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.340, A&C Black

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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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  Sound, Witch, Forget

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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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  Girl, Believe, Mind

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.277, A&C Black

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• Blast Cecil!” said Eldric. “You have my permission,” I said.

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  Permission, Blast, Said

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.261, A&C Black

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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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  Should, Things To Do

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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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  Real, Practice, Boxing

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.149, Penguin

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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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  Men, Understanding, Trying

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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?

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  Letting Go, Thinking, Arms

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.173, A&C Black

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• We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.

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  Wine, Ideas, Two

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.168, A&C Black

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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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  Next, Strange, Sometimes

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.261, A&C Black

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