"It's strange how a person can have a……" — Franny Billingsley
"It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life."
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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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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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More Clutch Quotes
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks…
— Robert Browning
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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and…
— Elias Canetti
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Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for…
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.
— Unknown Author
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Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.'…
— Silouan the Athonite
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For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip…
— Drake
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If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so…
— Gerald Vann
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
— Michael Leunig
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed…
— Victor Hugo
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