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

“What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?”

— Francesca Lia Block

Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.

— Francesca Lia Block

She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs –…

— 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

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

— Francesca Lia Block

Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth.…

— 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

Love is a dangerous angel.

— Francesca Lia Block

I dreamed of being a part of the stories—even terrifying one, even horror stories—because at least the girls in stories were alive…

— Francesca Lia Block

“The mint and honeysuckle air is chilly on her damp face, awake on the nape of her neck as Witch Baby Wigg…

— 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

At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

— 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

“His voice reminded me of poetry and sex.”

— Francesca Lia Block

“I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate.”

— Francesca Lia Block

Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know'…

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

Weetzie wished she could shake blue glitter around all of them - keeping them sparkling and safe.

— Francesca Lia Block

“Maybe I'm afraid of the sword not because I think I might fail to defend us but because I'm not so certain…

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Francesca Lia Block

“So Witch Baby played. Tossing her head, sucking in her cheeks and popping up with the impact of each beat. Thrusting her…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Dirk, this is Peace, Granola, Crystal, Chi, Aura, Tahini, and the twins, Yin and Yang," Duck said. ... "They had all of…

— Francesca Lia Block

“They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical…

— 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