75 Quotes by Michelle Franklin

Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

The weather was at war with itself, on one side the prevailing clouds and on the other the glimmer of sunlight, the lunar noon slinking in between the two, the sliver of the old moon cradling the new, the eternal story of sun and moon communicating their conflict across the sky.

But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.

I know nothing of dissent, because I do not make rules. Eating cake at 5am is not a crime when there are no laws in place. Sweet is the sleep of the lawless and cake-quenched.

A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude.

I did not need an unstable relationship to teach me about the evils of broken promises. I had parents for that.

If only the morbidly religious cared more about real atrocities, like war, poverty, and sports.

Never underestimate the audacity of the small minded and slightly crapulous.A rather bleezed young neighbour decided to have a grammar battle with me. It lasted all of two seconds.I said something slightly amicable, and he responded with, “You sure that's how you use that word?”I put down my laundry basket and turned to him slowly and deliberately.“Do you really want to have this discussion with me, son, or do you want to go home and rethink your life?”He grumbled and vanished.