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My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.
Franny Billingsley
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Franny Billingsley
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: July 3
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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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It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
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I hated myself, but I also loved myself in a hateful way.
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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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There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.
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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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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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If you don't argue, you can't give in.
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Even a witch wants sympathy.
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Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?
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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
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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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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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You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.
Franny Billingsley
Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.
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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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Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.
Franny Billingsley
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.
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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.
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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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