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“I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please”

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Franny Billingsley is an American author known for her fantasy and young adult literature. Born on July 3, 1954, she has a passion for writing that has fueled a series of novels beloved by readers. more

“Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you.”

Ifs Men Believe Long Helping Hands Night Stars Middle Ten Miles Naked Lakes Shore Scare Blades Grim Michigan Middle Of The Night

Book:Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

“She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.”

Beautiful Young Pale Grey Very Beautiful

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)

“Sense will always have attractions for me.”

Attraction

Book:Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions

Source: Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions

“Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.”

Past Slips Amnesia Past Present Past Present And Future

Book:The Summer Without Men: A Novel

Source: The Summer Without Men: A Novel

“Think pink. A better way of life.”

Thinking Way Better Ways Eloise

Author:Kay Thompson

“Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise”

Lines Walks Height Rope Straight Lines Walkers Practise

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.”

Firsts Use Problem Lessons Miracle Learning To Trust

Author:Corrie Ten Boom

“In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.”

Should Mind President Rooms Fronts Objects Findings Ordinary Snow Pot Flags Hung Marble Pillars Stew Vipers President Snow

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.”

Heart Reality My Heart Tests Scientist Mad Faster Delusion Chemistry Sober Sunny Tubes Back Again Slick Mad Scientist Spillage

Author:Jonathan Lethem

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