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Franny Billingsley

You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.

Franny Billingsley

Perhaps you should put your head down.” I knew this was the thing to do, although I’ve never fainted and I don’t intend to.

advice, fainting

Franny Billingsley

Meaning. If you’re going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

connect, death, find, franny-billingsley, life, meaning

Franny Billingsley

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.

Franny Billingsley

I explained we lost the porch to the flood. ‘Father hasn’t gotten around to rebuilding it, although he’s quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, it’s good enough for a clergyman. But I don’t remember that Jesus let his house fall down.

carpenting, jesus

Franny Billingsley

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.

humor, shallow, wit

Franny Billingsley

Even a witch wants sympathy.

sympathy, witches

Franny Billingsley

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.

murderesses, witches

Franny Billingsley

Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

Franny Billingsley

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don’t have to be right, you don’t have to be reasonable.

Franny Billingsley

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don’t have to be right, you don’t have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn’t mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn’t mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.

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 than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.

laughter, warmth, wine