Franny Billingsley Quotes

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

  Franny Billingsley

  Looks, Witch

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

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• Even a witch wants sympathy.

  Franny Billingsley

  Sympathy, Want, Witch

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.130, 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?

  Franny Billingsley

  Believe, Love You, World

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

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

  Franny Billingsley

  Please, Ifs

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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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• 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.

  Franny Billingsley

  Memories, Knowing, People

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

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• I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I’m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I’m glad I’m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.

  Franny Billingsley

  Girl, Dog, Hate

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.157, A&C Black

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• Death had no lips, but it was smiling

  Franny Billingsley

  Lips

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.49, A&C Black

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• It wasn't quite a question. It was more of an invitation to tell him whatever I chose. Eldric game me a choice, and it was this that made me want to tell him everything.

  Franny Billingsley

  Games, Choices, Want

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

  Franny Billingsley

  Strange, Clutch, Persons

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.92, A&C Black

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• I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

  Franny Billingsley

  Lust, Doe, Asking

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• 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

  Chocolate, Would Be, Tongue

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.264, A&C Black

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• I have some questions about betrayal,” I said. “Think about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and says he has dinner plans with you, goes off with a beautiful woman, saying he’ll be back directly, then makes you wait half an hour because he’s kissing the woman in the alley. Is that betrayal?” “Oh, Lord.” Eldric tossed back his wine.

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  Beautiful, Betrayal, Wine

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.161, Penguin

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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

  Girl, Baby, Thinking

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm. Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

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  Father, Silence, Twists

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.15, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Mean, Circles, Tails

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.5, A&C Black

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• I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are colors I cannot see. As though I have ears, but there's a range of notes I cannot hear.

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  Eye, Color, Each Day

  Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Shadow, World, Imagine

  Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.

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  Girl, Mother, Baby

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.160, A&C Black

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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.

  Franny Billingsley

  Girl, Eye, Cutting

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

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• 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.

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  Water, Secret, Dams

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.133, 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.

  Franny Billingsley

  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.

  Franny Billingsley

  Practice, Mask, Ought

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

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• 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

  Names, Rose, Battle

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.105, A&C Black

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• Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

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  Father, Use, Argument

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.87, Penguin

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