"My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling……" — Frances Hardinge
"My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?’ Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leap’s hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. ‘Did you lie about when he was born?’ translated Mosca."
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42 Quotes by Frances Hardinge
Frances Hardinge has 42 quotes on this site.
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Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page…
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Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
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True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
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If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do…
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Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain…
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Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent.…
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If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never…
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The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.
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Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...
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I want my chirfugging goose back!
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You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent
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I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose…
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Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin,…
— Will Carleton
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
— Ambrose Bierce
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God,…
— Primo Levi
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism…
— Richard Livingstone
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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon…
— Richard Louv
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I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle,…
— Stefan Sagmeister
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When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered…
— Albert Einstein
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I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was…
— Karl Pilkington
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In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a…
— E. O. Wilson
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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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