174 Quotes by Frances Hardinge

Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.

Quiet people often have a weather sense that loud people lack. They feel the wind-changes of conversations, and shiver in the chill of unspoken resentments.

Well, what do you think would happen to your face if you found out something you couldn't forget? Something terrible that changed the way you thought, and would show through your expressions forever?' Leodora leaned forward and spoke in a low, gentle tone. 'Your face would be spoilt. And then there would be no point to you any more.

If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so.

Why? How had this otherwise sensible woman who had only met Beamabeth as a screaming purple blob fallen under her spell? Or had Beamabeth slipped immaculate into the world, petal-cheeked and smiling amidst gleaming golden curls?

If you want someone to tell you what to think...""You will never be short of people willing to do so.

Follow that coffeehouse.

Neverfell shepherded her herd of frightened, woolly suspicions.

How does it feel, whispered Faith, to come back to your memories and find yourself missing and a dead person in your place?