Francesca Lia Block Quotes - Page 5

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• It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

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  Listening, Important, Stories

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop”, p.238, Zondervan

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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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  Boys, Sometimes, Beast

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• Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.

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  Knowing, Waiting, Beast

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• You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.

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  Wings, You Make Me Feel, Touch Me

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• I dreamed of being a part of the stories—even terrifying one, even horror stories—because at least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

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  Girl, Horror Stories, Alive

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• I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides, exhaust, flowers that could make you sick or fall in love. My battered Impala was still parked there on the side of the road and I wanted to lie down on the shredded seats and sleep and sleep. But I thought of the bones; I could hear them singing. They needed me to write their song.

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  Song, Falling In Love, Lying

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• Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

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  Pain, Sight, Giving

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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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  Song, Pain, Heart

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• If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

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  Sea, Mermaid, Said

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the poems didn't make sense to my teachers. They didn't rhyme. They were about the wind sounds, the planets' motions, never about who I was or how I felt. I didn't think I felt anything. I was this mind more than a body or a heart. My mind photographing the stars, hearing the wind.

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  Teacher, Stars, Writing

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• His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe it made him bleed inside. I wondered if it hurt, if it burned in his throat.

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  Hurt, Voice, Body

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• Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

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  Pain, Form, Changed

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• I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway.

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  Pain, Care, Hold Me

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• 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.

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  Breathing, Skins, Veins

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?

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  Once Upon A Time

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Witch Baby”, p.5, Harper Collins

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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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  Stress, Believe, Writing

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• All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.

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  Girl, Loneliness, Heart

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• At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

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  Girl, Stories, Alive

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• If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you

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  Lovers, Ifs

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• She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

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  Numbness, Mouths, Dolls

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• Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!” Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. “People in fairy tales wish for that all the time,” the genie said. “They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.

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  Sorry, Stupid, Numbers

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• It's not that I literally think I'm a fearie. It's just that I feel so different from most people. And this idea of a race living underground in caverns, spending all their days dancing and playing the fiddle and eating flowers and reciting poetry and sharing their dreams, that to me sounds much more real than the way people live in this world, hating and fighting and wanting and hurting.

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  Dream, Hurt, Hate

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• 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.

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  Children, Book, Names

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• 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.

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  Writing, Magic, Kind

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.

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  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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