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Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
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Novelist
Poet
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California
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Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.
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Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.
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You have to make your own family, your own life.
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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 think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.
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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.
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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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At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.
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Welcome Beauty, banish fear.
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You can't doubt so much, Psyche
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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.
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Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will.
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I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?
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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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You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.
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Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.
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Love is a dangerous angel.
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Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.
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It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.
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What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?
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