"Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch……" — Franny Billingsley
"Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat."
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Franny Billingsley
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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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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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I have some questions about betrayal,” I said. “Think about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and…
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More Cannot Touch Quotes
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Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts…
— George W. Bush
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The law says you cannot touch, but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house.
— Matthew McConaughey
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Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like…
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.
— Andre Kertesz
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I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.
— Edward Abbey
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch…
— Fernando Pessoa
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The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself…
— Gautama Buddha
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Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You…
— India.Arie
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You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the…
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage…
— Matthew Henry
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The amount which you understand the gospel is measured by your ability to be joyful in all circumstances. If you…
— J. D. Greear
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