Franny Billingsley Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Girl, Dog, Hate

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

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• He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them.

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  Mean, People, Who Cares

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.73, A&C Black

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• Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

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  Persons, Activity, Eavesdropping

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.75, 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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• Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate her exhibiting a touch of melancholy. Also acceptable would be despair.

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  Appreciate, Rose, Despair

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.65, Penguin

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• I’m not really the sacrificing type.

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  Sacrifice, Type

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.71, A&C Black

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Names, Rose, Battle

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.105, 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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• Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.

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  Missing, Pity, Said

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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