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“God almighty, Franny," he said. "If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one. Keep him in mind if you say it, and him only, and him as he was and not as you'd like him to have been.”
J.D. Salinger“Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.”
Franny Billingsley, Chime“She threw her arms around him and kissed him. It was a station-platform kiss—spontaneous enough to begin with, but rather inhibited in the follow-through, and with somewhat of a forehead-bumping aspect.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey“Defeated, Jo turned her head as the knives hurdled through the air. There was another photograph on the wall: a shot of Franny Jo had never seen before. As the woman in the photo watched her knives driven home, the corners of her mouth turned up. For the first time ever, Jo was privy to a genuine smile on the lips of Franny Trymark.”
Christa Carmen, Devolution Z: The Horror Magazine September 2016“Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.”
Amanda Ward Eyre“Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.”
Emma Straub, The Vacationers“Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.”
Franny Billingsley, Chime“It’s one thing if a person learns you’re a witch. It’s quite another if he learns you’re a murderer. I almost forget I’m a witch now that I know I’m a murderer—murderess, actually. Murderess sounds so much worse.”
Franny Billingsley, Chime“Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.”
Franny Billingsley, Chime