Time Quotes by Francesca Lia Block

9 Time quotes by Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block’s short set on Time offers a handful of lyrical, dream‑like lines that capture her magical realism in a quick read.

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Magic can be found in stolen moments.

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“What time are we upon and where do I belong?”

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“Same Bat time, same Bat place.”

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Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?

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

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I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other…

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

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War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are…

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I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was…

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“Even in darkness your lips taste of sunshine”

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

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

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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 downpour. Drops…

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

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“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…

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“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…

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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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