Francesca Lia Block Quotes
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Francesca Lia Block Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We try on different dresses, different selves, but our souls are always the same - ongoing, full of light.
Hopefully, when you are young, you discover something called love, which is really just another name for going home.
I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions.
He slid his hands around behind me and placed his fingers on my shoulder blades, touching the bones reverently, as if he had discovered wings.
Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.
But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.
He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.
What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?
The night was a rush of steaming pasta, wet irises, Italian leathers, swaddled beggars, skulking boys, sulking girls, garbage piles, pretzel vendors.
But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.
The lesson of this life is not for me to touch you again. It is to accept who I am now and not feel shame.
My baby brother would never call Hex soft. Not Hex.
And not me, either. Not anymore. Not any fucking more.
And not me, either. Not anymore. Not any fucking more.
I close my eyes. I am the visionary, the one-eyed seer, the storyteller. I am Pen. I can fight with the power of images and words.
I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?
In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren't. Searching.
My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.
I thought he had taken my soul, said Rev.
I thought he took mine, too. But no one can. It's just been sleeping.
I thought he took mine, too. But no one can. It's just been sleeping.
We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world?
Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.
The mint and honeysuckle air is chilly on her damp face, awake on the nape of her neck as Witch Baby Wigg skates home.
I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate.
In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.
Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards ... It's a magpie Christmas market.
Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.
What are you going to do if you find art, Pen? You going to steal some and put it in the van?"
"I'm going to remember. When there was art.
"I'm going to remember. When there was art.
Believe him when he tells you you are beautiful
it will only hurt you both not to
(it is true besides)
it will only hurt you both not to
(it is true besides)
Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.
I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.
One of the best things about sex with a Banshee, however, is that she will make her needs known freely.
It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.
You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.
My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone
Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.
I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin - if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.