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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.
Franny Billingsley
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Franny Billingsley
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: July 3
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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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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.
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Blast Cecil!” said Eldric. “You have my permission,” I said.
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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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I hated myself, but I also loved myself in a hateful way.
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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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Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?
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My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.
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Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.
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If you don't argue, you can't give in.
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I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down.
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I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.
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