“ Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots. Franny Billingsley
“ I knew then the taste of true fear. It tastes of dark places deep in your stomach and holds you by the neck. Franny Billingsley
“ Remember: You're the girl with nothing below the surface. Scratch it and what do you find? More surface. Franny Billingsley
“ Excellent fistibus, said Eldric, but he wasn't done with my hand. He inspected my left palm, the pucker of scars. There's no fortune to be read in that palm, I said, but of course he wanted to know ab… Franny Billingsley
“ You can’t get at a memory as you might get at a splinter. You can’t poke about in your mind with a sterilized needle Franny Billingsley
“ I love you. I believe it. I believe I am lovable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world? Franny Billingsley
“ Skipping meals is terrifically convenient: It gives one lots of time to brood and hate oneself. Franny Billingsley
“ Never punch from the elbow.Of course not, I said. Only a stupidibus would fight like that.Guess what? I can punch as well as make people laugh. Franny Billingsley
“ When you’re jealous, your spit turns to acid. When you’re jealous, you eat yourself from the inside out Franny Billingsley
“ That girl was gone; wolfgirl had returned. Wolfgirl, who was leaf dance and moon claw and tooth gleam. When Jupiter sizzled the air with lightning bolts, she caught them on the fly.Nice throw, Jupiter… Franny Billingsley
“ I've been thinking, said the Eldric image.Ooh, thinking! I said. Shall I tell your father?Very funny, said Eldric, but he was laughing. Franny Billingsley
“ The first meeting of the Fraternitus Bad-Boyificus was also to be my first fighting lesson. I made a fist and showed it to Eldric.Fistibus Briony. I shook my fist. Eldric terrorificorumest?Terrific? I… Franny Billingsley
“ How many bones did he set? I cared about it much less than they did. It's my Florence Nightingale calm, I suppose.There was a pause.Twenty-seven, said Father.There was a question mark in that pause. H… Franny Billingsley
“ Wine and bread. This has always seemed rather ghoulish to me, as though one were smearing the threshold with Puree of Christ. Thank Franny Billingsley
“ And then it occurred to him to wonder whether you actually knew what a seduction involves. The details, I mean.I spread my wicked left hand over my face, but surely slices of crimson tide showed betwe… Franny Billingsley
