World Quotes by Francesca Lia Block

9 World quotes by Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block’s nine brief reflections on the world weave together vivid imagery and dreamy tone. This short selection offers a quick glimpse into her lyrical, fantastical perspective.

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

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I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become…

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It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors…

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Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it…

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It's not that I literally think I'm a fearie. It's just that I feel so different from most people. And this idea…

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When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of…

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She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but…

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That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly,…

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Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of…

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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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