Top 120 Francesca Lia Block Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You have to make your own family, your own life.”

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2. “Magic can be found in stolen moments.”

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

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

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5. “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.”

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6. “Love is a dangerous angel.”

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

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8. “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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9. “It’s scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can’t buy into these messages.”

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10. “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?”

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11. “You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can’t be anywhere except together.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.”

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14. “Every girl is a goddess.”

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15. “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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16. “We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters.”

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17. “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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18. “I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?”

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19. “You’re meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.”

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20. “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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21. “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.”

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

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23. “When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.”

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24. “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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25. “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.”

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26. “Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.”

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27. “Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.”

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28. “Welcome Beauty, banish fear.”

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29. “Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.”

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

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31. “He said, You’re so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.”

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32. “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.”

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

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

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35. “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.”

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36. “You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.”

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

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38. “If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.”

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39. “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 go until it is over. You will learn many things. Just relax and observe because there just is pain and that’s it mostly and you aren’t going to be able to escape no matter what. Eventually it will all be over anyway. Good Luck.”

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40. “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.”

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

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43. “I am not a hero, I am not Odysseus, there are no gods or goddesses guiding me. All I have is myself. And Hex’s sword.”

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44. “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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45. “Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.”

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

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

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48. “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.”

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49. “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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50. “When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world.”

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