Franny Billingsley

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am…

— Franny Billingsley

I’m not really the sacrificing type.

— Franny Billingsley

“A person might get angry when the girl he loves says she'll never marry.”

— Franny Billingsley

“Eldric wore his lazy lion’s smile. He didn’t mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person.”

— Franny Billingsley

“My, my,” said Eldric. “You are full of surprises.”

— Franny Billingsley

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

“Sometimes, of course, the sister’s the wicked one, not the stepmother.”

— Franny Billingsley

“...And then it occurred to him to wonder whether you actually knew what a seduction involves. The details, I mean. I spread…

— Franny Billingsley

I am entirely well,” said Eldric, “which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being…

— Franny Billingsley

“Never punch from the elbow." "Of course not," I said. "Only a stupidibus would fight like that." Guess what? I can punch…

— Franny Billingsley

“I grew up in a household that was filled with Scottish and Irish ballads. So I think that the complexity and the…

— Franny Billingsley

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…

— Franny Billingsley

“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff,…

— Franny Billingsley

“Are those paper clips?' I'd seen them in catalogs, but the pictures don't do them justice. They're beautiful, in an industrial sort…

— Franny Billingsley

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…

— Franny Billingsley

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

— Franny Billingsley

“Poor Cecil. It’s hard to be a devil of a fellow in these modern times. No stagecoaches to hold up. No princesses…

— Franny Billingsley

Blast Cecil!” said Eldric. “You have my permission,” I said.

— Franny Billingsley

I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius'…

— Franny Billingsley

“Is this what a nun feels when she runs wild? Perhaps running wild needn’t mean dressing in satin and taking to cigarettes.…

— Franny Billingsley

Perhaps you should put your head down.” I knew this was the thing to do, although I’ve never fainted and I don’t…

— Franny Billingsley

“Once we got to eating, the idea of happiness returned to me. Not the feeling, the idea. Would a regular girl be…

— Franny Billingsley

When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams…

— Franny Billingsley

“Poor Cecil, consumed by a grande passion, only to be told to compress his love manifesto into a haiku. “I won’t try…

— Franny Billingsley

“I've confessed to everything and I'd like to be hanged. Now, if you please. I don't mean to be difficult, but I…

— Franny Billingsley