Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
Franny BillingsleyItโs one thing if a person learns youโre a witch. Itโs quite another if he learns youโre a murderer. I almost forget Iโm a witch now that I know Iโm a murdererโmurderess, actually. Murderess sounds so much worse.
Franny BillingsleyPeople think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply donโt feel very much.
Franny BillingsleyI don't like my shoes,' said Rose. 'I'm wearing my shoes and you don't see me complain.' 'You only hear a person complain,' said Rose. 'Not see.' How has Rose lived for seventeen years and no one has killed her, not once?
Franny BillingsleyThere are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.
Franny Billingsley