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101 " Sometimes, of course, the sister’s the wicked one, not the stepmother. "
― Franny Billingsley , Chime
102 " Eldric wore his lazy lion’s smile. He didn’t mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person. "
103 " If there were such a thing as a vampire-puppy-dog, it would be Cecil. Big pleading eyes, asking for an ear-scratch and a nice warm bowl of blood. "
104 " A toast at your wedding, perhaps?” said Eldric. “I shall never get married,” I said. “But I do like champagne. "
105 " It never ends, this business of being a lady. "
― Franny Billingsley , The Folk Keeper
106 " Some secrets are wrong and ought to be told. "
107 " The problem I have telling my secret', said Eldric, 'is that it's a secret. "
108 " The only right memory, is the one that first comes to you. "
109 " When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a whole bunch of Penguin Puffins books, like The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley, which is hilarious. I would love to be able to write a book like that, but I don't know that I have a humorous bone in my body when it comes to writing. Once on a Time by A.A. Milne. I read a lot of old, old fantasy stuff. The Carbonelbooks by Barbara Sleigh. Then when I got a little older I loved Zilpha Keatley Snyder. I was a big fan of romance and when I got a little bit older I would read a Harlequin romance or a Georgette Heyer novel and then David Copperfield, and then another genre book and then Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy. I was that kind of reader. One book that I loved was I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I loved voice and that book had it in spades. And then of course I grew into loving Jane Eyre. "
― Franny Billingsley
110 " Forge ahead, O mighty enforcer of the law. May you be stout of heart and eardrum. "
111 " Briony scared?” said Eldric. “I’ve never seen anyone less scared in my life. She has nerves of iron. "
112 " I turned my peeled-apple face to him. I'd make myself look at him. I owed him that. His touch lingered on my neck as though he'd left a handprint of melted light. "
113 " Is this what a nun feels when she runs wild? Perhaps running wild needn’t mean dressing in satin and taking to cigarettes. It might mean running into the wild, into the real, into the ooze and muck and the clean, muddy smell of life. "
114 " Poor Cecil. It’s hard to be a devil of a fellow in these modern times. No stagecoaches to hold up. No princesses to rescue. Just Petey Todd to escort, while the easy, expert fellow walks the pretty girl home. "
115 " How true, lamentably true. I’m sorry, Father. I do not love my neighbor as myself. "
116 " A person might get angry when the girl he loves says she'll never marry. "
117 " Smash the table, why don’t you? Kick things about. It’s ever so nice to see you embrace the true spirit of the Fraternitus. "
118 " There is a lump of desolation beneath the bony dip at my throat. It is no bigger than a coin, this spot, a peculiarly small place to hold such a feeling. I try to shove it to some deeper region, but there it sticks, a fragile skin-thickness from the outside world. "
119 " My feet are wet,” said Mr. Dreary. “You lack the proper gear,” I said. We teetered along a trickle of land that wound between water and mud. “Here in the swamp, even the swans wear rubber boots. "
120 " It’s just as well I switched hands: Witches are thought to be left-handed. Perhaps it’s true. Rose is no witch and she uses her right hand. We are mirror twins, she and I. What’s left for me is right for her; and if I wanted to feel sorry for myself, I might say nothing’s right for me. "