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

Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
Editor
Novelist
Poet
Writer
LA
California
Something
Smash
Rest
Happens
Heart

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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 now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.
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Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.
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You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.
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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.
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Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.
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You can't doubt so much, Psyche
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Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?
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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.
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Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form.
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But be careful sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.
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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.
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Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.
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You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew.
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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.
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Every girl is a goddess.
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Love is a dangerous angel.
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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.
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We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters
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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 intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.
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