"You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I……" — Franny Billingsley
"You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name."
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67 Quotes by Franny Billingsley
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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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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and…
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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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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of…
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow…
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