"Death had no lips, but it was smiling"

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Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.49, A&C Black

Franny Billingsley

“It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.”
“We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden”
“Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.”
“I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.”
“It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.”
“The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.”
“It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.”
“The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.”

Source : Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.co.uk.

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