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• It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.

  Franny Billingsley

  Lying, Secret, One Thing

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

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• It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea. I move through life like a person with one eye, through a landscape that looks flat, but is really tricked out with hidden depths and shallows. It didn’t use to be so, but no matter. I navigate the world well enough in my own way.

  Franny Billingsley

  Moving, Eye, Ideas

  Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Prayer, Mean, Ungrateful

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.94, A&C Black

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• If you don't argue, you can't give in.

  Franny Billingsley

  Giving, Arguing, Ifs

  Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Franny Billingsley

  Taken, Faces, Remember

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.113, 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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• 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.

  Franny Billingsley

  Mean, People, Who Cares

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

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• I’m not really the sacrificing type.

  Franny Billingsley

  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.

  Franny Billingsley

  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.

  Franny Billingsley

  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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• 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

  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?

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

  Franny Billingsley

  Names, Mind, Tongue

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

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• The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on innumerable holes in the sand. Bubbles form and fade. A new language, with a new alphabet.

  Franny Billingsley

  Beach, Track, Bird

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