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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.

Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 3
Editor
Novelist
Poet
Writer
LA
California
Heart
Cracks
Like
Carefully
Walk
Walks
Break
Teacup
Feel
Hairline
Feels
Shatter
Real
Shaken

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