Francesca Lia Block Quotes

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.

I embody death, not peace. The only choice in this world we have made from our betrayals and our weakness and our greed.

About Author

Francesca Lia Block (born December 3, 1962) is an American writer of adult and young-adult literature. She wrote the Weetzie Bat series, which she began while a student at UC Berkeley.

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 batter...

I still can’t talk about it, he saidDuck. Dirk touched his cheekI remember, later, my mom trying to run into the water and I’m trying to hold her back and her hair and my tears are so bright that I’m...

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.

I think when you are born an angel should say to you, hopefully kindly and not in that fake voice of an airline attendant: Here you go on this long, long dream. Don’t even try to wake up. Just let it...

I thought he had taken my soul, said Rev. I thought he took mine, too. But no one can. It's just been sleeping.

I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.

I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciti...

Like Beauty. But she only pricked her finger. I had a spindle through my heart.

Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our...

Same Bat time, same Bat place.

She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.