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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 — and 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.She has a son and a daughter. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. December 1962
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Works

Wasteland
Wasteland
Francesca Lia Block
Echo
Echo
Francesca Lia Block
Weetzie Bat
Weetzie Bat
Francesca Lia Block
Wasteland
Wasteland
Francesca Lia Block
Echo
Echo
Francesca Lia Block
Weetzie Bat
Weetzie Bat
Francesca Lia Block
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Famous Francesca Lia Block Quotes

“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.”

Francesca Lia Block

“Pain can give you sight or make you blind.”

Francesca Lia Block

“Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.”

Francesca Lia Block book Echo

Source: Echo

“What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?”

Francesca Lia Block Weetzie Bat

Source: Weetzie Bat

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

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Baby Be-Bop

Francesca Lia Block Quotes about beauty

“We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.)”

Francesca Lia Block

“Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.”

Francesca Lia Block Weetzie Bat

Source: Weetzie Bat

“No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Pink Smog

“My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”

Francesca Lia Block book Witch Baby

Source: Witch Baby

Francesca Lia Block Quotes about love

“You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.
If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.”

Francesca Lia Block book Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

“What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?”

Francesca Lia Block

Variant: What shall we do? All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, and watermelon hearts?
Source: Blood Roses

“In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.”

Francesca Lia Block

“Love is a dangerous angel.”

Francesca Lia Block Weetzie Bat

Source: Weetzie Bat

“Any love that is love is right.”

Francesca Lia Block book Dangerous Angels

Source: Dangerous Angels

“No matter where I am, I am always loving you.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories

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“Magic can be found in stolen moments.”

Francesca Lia Block

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

Francesca Lia Block book Dangerous Angels

Source: Dangerous Angels

Francesca Lia Block Quotes

“Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I met you even.”

Francesca Lia Block

“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.”

Francesca Lia Block book Dangerous Angels

Source: Dangerous Angels

“Just like any woman,… we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.”

Francesca Lia Block

“But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

“This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.”

Francesca Lia Block

Variant: This was not a faerie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
Source: Violet & Claire

“… 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….”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: How to (Un)cage a Girl

“She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary – and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Violet & Claire

“Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: The Hanged Man

“Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with”

Francesca Lia Block Missing Angel Juan

Source: Missing Angel Juan

“I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.”

Francesca Lia Block book Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

“After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.”

Francesca Lia Block Missing Angel Juan

Source: Missing Angel Juan

“Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Necklace of Kisses

“The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Pink Smog

“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.”

Francesca Lia Block book Echo

Source: Echo

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

Francesca Lia Block book Echo

Source: Echo

“Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.”

Francesca Lia Block

“I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories

“Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.”

Francesca Lia Block

“Every girl is a goddess.”

Francesca Lia Block

“You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

“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.”

Francesca Lia Block book Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

“I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories

“He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.”

Francesca Lia Block book Dangerous Angels

Source: Dangerous Angels

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

Francesca Lia Block

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

“I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine… ninety-five… ninety-two… ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?”

Francesca Lia Block book Echo

Source: Echo

“You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink Cadillac, my highway, my martini, the stage for my heart to rock and roll on, the screen where my movies light up.”

Francesca Lia Block Weetzie Bat

Source: Weetzie Bat

“Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.”

Francesca Lia Block book Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

“The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Love in the Time of Global Warming

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

Francesca Lia Block

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

“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.”

Francesca Lia Block

“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.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

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

Francesca Lia Block

Source: Baby Be-Bop

“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.”

Francesca Lia Block

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

“If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.”

Francesca Lia Block book Echo

Source: Echo

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