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.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  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.

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  Girl, Dog, Hate

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.157, 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?

  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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Franny Billingsley

  Men, Understanding, Trying

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Franny Billingsley

  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 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.

  Franny Billingsley

  Eye, Color, Each Day

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

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