"How can something as fragile as a word……" — Franny Billingsley
"How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?"
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67 Quotes by Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley has 67 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but…
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The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks.…
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...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and…
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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…
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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe…
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight,…
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It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
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A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its…
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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…
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I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself…
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