Stories Quotes by Francesca Lia Block

“Even in darkness your lips taste of sunshine”

— Francesca Lia Block

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

— Francesca Lia Block

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of…

— Francesca Lia Block

“It’s hard to remember what you fall in love with. Usually it is an expression in the eyes, an exchange, or a gesture or…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover Man and Dirk and Duck and Cherokee and Witch Baby and Slinkster Dog and Go-Go Girl and the…

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

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…

— Francesca Lia Block

“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…

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

“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…

— Francesca Lia Block