Francesca Lia Block

love is the only thing we have to save us

— Francesca Lia Block

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

— Francesca Lia Block

“He might be faithless but I believe in him.”

— Francesca Lia Block

You have to make your own family, your own life.

— Francesca Lia Block

What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?

— Francesca Lia Block

You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.

— Francesca Lia Block

Let's not be afraid of anything that can't really hurt us.

— Francesca Lia Block

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.

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“If you were sad about something that hadn't happened yet you couldn't be disappointed.”

— Francesca Lia Block

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

— Francesca Lia Block

Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.

— Francesca Lia Block

“I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate.”

— Francesca Lia Block

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming…

— Francesca Lia Block

Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.

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I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become…

— Francesca Lia Block

“What shall we do? All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of…

— Francesca Lia Block

I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project,…

— Francesca Lia Block

I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with…

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Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.

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“The world isn't necessarily going to explode. There will just be vast change. There is hope. It is in the rain forests,…

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“The fairy who was not old, not young, who was red roses, white snowfall, who was blind and saw everything, who sent…

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“Weetzie could see him--it was a man, a little man in a turban, with a jewel in his nose, harem pants, and…

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...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that—whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when…

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“They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical…

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Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of…

— Francesca Lia Block

“I still can’t talk about it,” he said “Duck.” Dirk touched his cheek “I remember, later, my mom trying to run into…

— Francesca Lia Block

“It wasn’t that shocking kind of feeling they both expected. More like a huge sigh of relief spreading through them. Like your…

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“It’s so sick,” Duck said. “I nicked myself shaving that last night at home, and I saw my own blood and I…

— Francesca Lia Block

“When I went back to look for it again I could never find it. It was as if someone had put some…

— Francesca Lia Block

“At the next Goat Guys show, the band came on stage with their wings, their haunches, their horns. The audience swooned at…

— Francesca Lia Block

“how to (un)cage a girl longer hair bigger breasts smoother skin flatter stomach whiter teeth smaller nose if you worry enough you…

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The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the…

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“If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is…

— Francesca Lia Block

“valentine my friends stitched it up with golden thread like a red satin pillow they gave me other whole ones too roses…

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“Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. They can…

— Francesca Lia Block

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

— Francesca Lia Block

“culturally idolized beauty is not only foolproof, but potentially dangerous.”

— Francesca Lia Block

“You try to decide if you should take this as a message of endings. Or beginnings.”

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I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.

— Francesca Lia Block

The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.

— Francesca Lia Block