Want Quotes by Francesca Lia Block

9 Want quotes by Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block’s nine succinct statements on Want swirl with a touch of magical realism. Though the list is modest, each line paints an imaginative picture of longing’s colorful edges.

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

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You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

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I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.

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If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow…

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Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes.…

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

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

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Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She…

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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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“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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