I am entirely well,” said Eldric, “which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being a man of scie…

- Franny Billingsley

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word buil…

- Franny Billingsley

You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.

- Franny Billingsley

I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please

- Franny Billingsley

We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it t…

- Franny Billingsley

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

- Franny Billingsley

I hated myself, but I also loved myself in a hateful way.

- Franny Billingsley

When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from dot number 1 to dot number 2 and …

- Franny Billingsley

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

- Franny Billingsley