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21 " Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do. "
― Franny Billingsley , Chime
22 " Even a witch wants sympathy. "
23 " It’s one thing if a person learns you’re a witch. It’s quite another if he learns you’re a murderer. I almost forget I’m a witch now that I know I’m a murderer—murderess, actually. Murderess sounds so much worse. "
24 " Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness. "
25 " Remember: You're the girl with nothing below the surface. Scratch it and what do you find? More surface. "
26 " Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so. "
27 " Skipping meals is terrifically convenient: It gives one lots of time to brood and hate oneself. "
28 " I knew then the taste of true fear. It tastes of dark places deep in your stomach and holds you by the neck. "
― Franny Billingsley , The Folk Keeper
29 " I love you. I believe it. I believe I am lovable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world? "
30 " you can’t get at a memory as you might get at a splinter. You can’t poke about in your mind with a sterilized needle "
31 " When you’re jealous, your spit turns to acid. When you’re jealous, you eat yourself from the inside out "
32 " When you hate yourself, you don’t neglect your responsibilities. When you hate yourself, you never forget what you did "
33 " Storybook events come in threes. So, it seems, does Hell. "
34 " I adore complaining— it calms the nerves "
35 " Truth is irrelevant to the treading out of brain paths. "
36 " Death had no lips, but it was smiling. "
37 " truth is entirely irrelevant to the treading out of brain path "
38 " That’s what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it’s all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You’ll end up with a lunatic scribble. But "
39 " Wine and bread. This has always seemed rather ghoulish to me, as though one were smearing the threshold with Puree of Christ. “Thank "
40 " I don't like my shoes,' said Rose.'I'm wearing my shoes and you don't see me complain.''You only hear a person complain,' said Rose. 'Not see.'How has Rose lived for seventeen years and no one has killed her, not once? "