Sally Franson > Quotes

“Because books, the good ones, the ones you hold on to and come back to, they never disappoint. They’re the best kind of escape because, instead of leading you away from yourself, they end up circling you back to yourself, nice and easy, helping you see things not just as they are, but as you are too.”
― Sally Franson, A Lady's Guide to Selling Out

“How when we called things by their right names we became bound to them, we were freed from the great alone.”
― Sally Franson, A Lady's Guide to Selling Out

“Isn’t it crazy […] that our ancestors left this?”
― Sally Franson, Big in Sweden

“Careful what people in power tell you about yourself,” she said. “Most often what lies behind it is greed.”
― Sally Franson, A Lady's Guide to Selling Out

“Lindsey’s apartment smelled like a Yankee Candle and looked like a Barbie Dreamhouse.”
― Sally Franson, A Lady's Guide to Selling Out

“You say you want your man back? Well then, Casey, you gotta do something about it! Though be careful, don’t do what I did, I’ve got two restraining orders against me.”
― Sally Franson, A Lady's Guide to Selling Out

“We revealed, and the other revealed us.”
― Sally Franson, A Lady's Guide to Selling Out

“Do you remember Reepicheep?” Susan asked suddenly. She was lying back on her elbows on our tattered blanket, facing the river. “The mouse from Narnia?” She nodded. I was sitting up, and curled my knees into my chest. “Yeah. What about him?” “Remember what happens to him at the end?” “He goes sailing off on his own, I think. From the Dawn Treader to the edge of the world? I can’t remember why.” “Because he had to,” Susan said. A cargo ship lurched through the muddy waters, belching smoke in the air. Somewhere birds had to be chirping, but I couldn’t hear them yet. “I know you’re out at the edge of the world right now,” she continued, still looking out at the river. She was using a twig to dig into the dirt beneath the long grass. “And I might not always be able to go there with you. But whenever I can I’ll try to drop down into your boat.” With this she turned to look at me. “Paddle with you for a while.” I couldn’t look at her. It was so embarrassing, being a person. Being loved and seen without any disguising contraptions. Eventually I managed to say, “You will?” “Of course I will,” she said. And she squeezed my arm.”
― Sally Franson, A Lady's Guide to Selling Out

“Perhaps because, for adults, malice was not only an external threat: its potential lurked inside us, like the Epstein-Barr virus, which Else confidently asserted without a medical license was the root cause of all disease.”
― Sally Franson, Big in Sweden

“Susan says forgiveness is just a philosophical construction anyway, a con put in place by those in power against those who have no power, so that the responsibility of coming to terms with bad shit keeps falling on the latter.”
― Sally Franson, A Lady's Guide to Selling Out