Beauty Quotes by Francesca Lia Block

10 Beauty quotes by Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block writes with a dreamy, lyrical voice, and this tiny anthology reflects that tone. Ten short passages explore how wonder and wonderment intertwine with the idea of beauty.

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Welcome Beauty, banish fear.

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

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

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“They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.”

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The most Beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex.

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“Like Beauty. But she only pricked her finger. I had a spindle through my heart.”

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This is not a fairy tale. This is not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was…

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No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have…

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

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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…

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“When you look at pain as material it makes all the difference in the world. I thought, the pain that is too big to…

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If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death…

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“My mind is like the valley—this vast barren waste. Car lots. Malls. Tract homes. I know there are other worlds beyond it—of canyons full…

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“And then I cried a flood of tears as if I really were a mermaid who had absorbed too much sea into herself. The…

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“Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that…

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“The next night I went back to the sea dressed in 1950s silk travel scarves – Paris with the Eiffel tower and ladies in…

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“for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground for burned mermaids and sick vampire girls for wild wolfish women…

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

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