Francesca Lia Block

I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.

— Francesca Lia Block

“The happier you are, the less you need.”

— Francesca Lia Block

You can't doubt so much, Psyche

— Francesca Lia Block

Every girl is a goddess.

— Francesca Lia Block

“Why else were we here except to love?”

— Francesca Lia Block

No matter where I am, I am always loving you.

— Francesca Lia Block

“Life was small but good. (15)”

— Francesca Lia Block

“He might be faithless but I believe in him.”

— Francesca Lia Block

You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.

— Francesca Lia Block

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.

— Francesca Lia Block

Let's not be afraid of anything that can't really hurt us.

— Francesca Lia Block

“People worry so much. Just enjoy your body. That you can love. And you're alive.”

— Francesca Lia Block

You have to make your own family, your own life.

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

“Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was.”

— Francesca Lia Block

“Like Beauty. But she only pricked her finger. I had a spindle through my heart.”

— Francesca Lia Block

“Hopefully, when you are young, you discover something called love, which is really just another name for going home.”

— Francesca Lia Block

Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.

— Francesca Lia Block

“She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never…

— Francesca Lia Block

“He slid his hands around behind me and placed his fingers on my shoulder blades, touching the bones reverently, as if he…

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

“I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her.…

— Francesca Lia Block

But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

— Francesca Lia Block

No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have…

— Francesca Lia Block

I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step,…

— Francesca Lia Block

I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big…

— Francesca Lia Block

He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just…

— Francesca Lia Block

“She wasn’t crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he’d seen her…

— 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…

— Francesca Lia Block

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls…

— Francesca Lia Block

“My reading and studying and retellings of old stories didn't do anything except help me think better. I was at least thoughtful.…

— Francesca Lia Block

We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Ash swirls in the air and the landscape is gray rubble that falls away into the sea. They kept saying global warming…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Why was fabulousness important? The world was a scary, sad place and adornment was one of the only ways she knew to…

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I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides,…

— 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…

— Francesca Lia Block

“how to (un)cage a girl longer hair bigger breasts smoother skin flatter stomach whiter teeth smaller nose if you worry enough you…

— Francesca Lia Block

“At the next Goat Guys show, the band came on stage with their wings, their haunches, their horns. The audience swooned at…

— Francesca Lia Block

“She said, You cannot hide forever, though you may try. I’ve seen you in the kitchen, in the garden. I’ve seen the…

— Francesca Lia Block

Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should…

— Francesca Lia Block