Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I dont know about happily ever after... but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought.
Francesca Lia Block
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
Editor
Novelist
Poet
Writer
LA
California
Happily
Dont
Thought
Ever
Bats
More quotes by Francesca Lia Block
We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters
Francesca Lia Block
i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.
Francesca Lia Block
It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
Francesca Lia Block
Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.
Francesca Lia Block
I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?
Francesca Lia Block
You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.
Francesca Lia Block
At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.
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' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.
Francesca Lia Block
Pain can give you sight or make you blind.
Francesca Lia Block
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.
Francesca Lia Block
You can't doubt so much, Psyche
Francesca Lia Block
...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that—whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell someone a dream or talk about your astrological signs as code for all the things you love about each other.
Francesca Lia Block
Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you’ve split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays.
Francesca Lia Block
I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No matter how much mutilation or pain. But he looked away, at me. He pulled my face down and pressed my lips against his like he was almost trying to suffocate us both.
Francesca Lia Block
Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.
Francesca Lia Block
Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.
Francesca Lia Block
Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
Francesca Lia Block
There’s nowhere to escape,” Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the Valley. That’s not true, baby,” said Desiree. She took his hands and pulled him to her, wrapping her legs around his torso. She could feel the sobs in both of them, but quiet, silenced by the kiss. They could escape inside each other.
Francesca Lia Block
Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.
Francesca Lia Block
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
Francesca Lia Block