Michelle Franklin Quotes

And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.

There comes a point in one's life where the people whom we grew up admiring begin to die, leaving a great chasm in the world. This is awful enough to deal with without having anything so annoying as f...

The past is behind us," said Boudicca,"but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.

Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield.

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

The sins of my sex... A woman who is ugly is pitiable, but a man who is ugly is forgiven.

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.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

Astonishing how tea opens the ears.

I leave the outdoors to you. It is too warm out there to read comfortable, and summer, like many uncomfortable things, is as welcome as a dim woman. It is tolerable to look at, but after being made to...

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

A heart? Peppone knows where one is to be met with. There is always someone in the black market in need of dying early.

I am never one to judge others; I am so eccentric myself that I have no right to cast aspersions. A person may or may not like a thing, and I have little to say other than I love it too or how could y...

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.

Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.

I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come ve...

I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

The absence of life is not the same as material privation: we will never again see the same soul occupying the same space. The world refers to them as pets, but that is what we do, not really what the...

Life makes beggars out of those who have joyful hearts, taxing the living with hardship and tribulation, but the charity of companionship, the currency of shared and unmitigated love, alleviates all d...