Quotes by Francesca Lia Block

About Francesca Lia Block:

Francesca Lia Block is an American writer of adult and young-adult literature: fiction, short stories, screenplays and poetry. She is known best for the Weetzie Bat series — named after its first installment and her first novel, which she wrote while a UC Berkeley student, Weetzie Bat (HarperColins, 1989). She is known for her use of imagery, especially in describing the city of Los Angeles. One New York Times Book Review critic said, "Block writes about the real Los Angeles better than anyone since Raymond Chandler." She won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2005 for her contribution in writing for teens.
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Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

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Weetzie could not even cry and make Kleenex roses. She remembered the day her father, Charlie, had driven away in the smashed yellow T-bird, leaving her mother Brandy-Lynn clutching her flowered robe with one hand and an empty glass in the other, and...

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If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.

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I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.

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People worry so much. Just enjoy your body. That you can love. And you're 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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Truth is in the guidance of the Coven. Is it a curse or a blessing?

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But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.

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L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls were the color of her veins. She was getting too thin, even fo...

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I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.

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I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.

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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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Life was small but good. (15)

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valentine my friends stitched it up with golden thread like a red satin pillow they gave me other whole ones too roses and charms and red candles milagros to repair the real one they told me i was no longer allowed to give it away a pretty pin cushio...

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Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

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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 ho...

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

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Think about the word destroy. Do you know what it is? De-story. Destroy. Destory. You see. And restore. That's re-story. Do you know that only two things have been proven to help survivors of the Holocaust? Massage is one. Telling their story is anot...

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You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

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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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I’m more than twisted. I’m the worst kind of vampire… But you’re the one who’s craving me, so what does that make you?

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Author Bio

  • NameFrancesca Lia Block
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornDecember 3, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsMargaret Edwards Award