Franny Billingsley

I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in…

— Franny Billingsley

I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please

— Franny Billingsley

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

— Franny Billingsley

You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves.

— Franny Billingsley

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to…

— Franny Billingsley

Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what…

— Franny Billingsley

“I was going to ask him, yes I was. “You remember Blackberry Night?” The torches were alive with yellow butterfly-flames. “I can’t…

— Franny Billingsley

You don’t mind when he stares at you.” Cecil jerked his head toward Eldric. "He doesn’t stare,” I said. “He looks.

— Franny Billingsley

“I love you. I believe it. I believe I am lovable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole…

— Franny Billingsley

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

— Franny Billingsley

“It never ends, this business of being a lady.”

— Franny Billingsley

“Smash the table, why don’t you? Kick things about. It’s ever so nice to see you embrace the true spirit of the…

— Franny Billingsley

“This is the difference between Eldric and me. Had it been my job to transform the garden, I would have removed the…

— Franny Billingsley

I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It…

— Franny Billingsley

“I have a theory about how she might have managed to pull off such a feat. It comes in the form of…

— Franny Billingsley

“You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting…

— Franny Billingsley

Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have…

— Franny Billingsley

“Darling! Had they darlinged each other when they were here? I imagined them, magnificent on horseback, tossing darlings to and fro.”

— Franny Billingsley

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

— Franny Billingsley

“I can.” He rent his dark tresses, Resulting in messes, Thus prompting his L.I. to flee till, she reached the end of…

— Franny Billingsley

“How many bones did he set?" I cared about it much less than they did. It's my Florence Nightingale calm, I suppose.…

— Franny Billingsley

Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.

— Franny Billingsley

“Storybook events come in threes. So, it seems, does Hell.”

— Franny Billingsley

“That girl was gone; wolfgirl had returned. Wolfgirl, who was leaf dance and moon claw and tooth gleam. When Jupiter sizzled the…

— Franny Billingsley

“Wearing a cloak is on Rose's list of the thousand things she hates most. The problem is that each of the thousand…

— Franny Billingsley