Francesca Lia Block

Magic can be found in stolen moments.

— Francesca Lia Block

“Even in darkness your lips taste of sunshine”

— 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

Welcome Beauty, banish fear.

— Francesca Lia Block

Every girl is a goddess.

— Francesca Lia Block

“Life was small but good. (15)”

— Francesca Lia Block

Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form...

— Francesca Lia Block

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

— Francesca Lia Block

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

— Francesca Lia Block

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.

— Francesca Lia Block

It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.

— Francesca Lia Block

He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of…

— Francesca Lia Block

i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was…

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.

— Francesca Lia Block

Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed…

— Francesca Lia Block

It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you…

— Francesca Lia Block

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed…

— 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…

— Francesca Lia Block

His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Whatever love meant there was some version of it that I felt for Winter. And it didn't matter if he felt that…

— Francesca Lia Block

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It…

— Francesca Lia Block

You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken…

— Francesca Lia Block

Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. “How could you want one?” My Secret Agent Lover Man said. “There are way…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Think about the word destroy. Do you know what it is? De-story. Destroy. Destory. You see. And restore. That's re-story. Do you…

— Francesca Lia Block

It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Grief is not something you know if you grow up wearing feathers with a Charlie Chaplin boyfriend, a love-child papoose, a witch…

— Francesca Lia Block

Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed…

— Francesca Lia Block

Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms.…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Part of me wanted to swoon into nothing, but the other women’s bones were talking. I didn’t see the bones but I…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Under the twinkling trees was a table covered with Guatemalan fabric, roses in juice jars, wax rose candles from Tijuana and plates…

— Francesca Lia Block

All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no…

— 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…

— Francesca Lia Block

“No one noticed Witch Baby as she went back inside the cottage, into the room she and Cherokee shared. Cherokee's side of…

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block