75 Quotes by Franny Billingsley

My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice.

When you’re jealous, your spit turns to acid. When you’re jealous, you eat yourself from the inside out.

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

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.

He scooped up my arm, swung me round. “Let go, Cecil,” I said. “I’ve a strange dislike of being forced.” “But Briony,” he said, “I’m so full of good spirits. I could walk to London, I think!” Why didn’t he?

A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.

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

It’s strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

The only right memory, is the one that first comes to you.