Top 120 Francesca Zappia Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I don’t know anymore. I don’t know, I don’t know, god, I’m so tired.”

— Francesca Zappia

2. “You found me in a constellation.”

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3. “Desire is the fuel of creators, and when we have that, motivation will come in its wake.”

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4. “Our stories have lives of their own-and it’s up to us to make them mean something.”

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5. “Truth is the worst monster, because it never really goes away.”

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6. “In a weird way, it felt like he belonged here. He belonged in the land of phoenixes and witches, the place where things were too fantastic to be real.”

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7. “How can I want something so badly but become so paralyzed every time I think about taking it?”

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8. “Disappearing is an art form, and I am its queen.”

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9. “I am laugh-crying alone in my bedroom. Wonderful.”

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10. “Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.”

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11. “I think you might be surprised how thin the lines between art and sports really are – some artists consider their craft a sport, and some athletes consider their sport an art. My point is we ascribe value to the things we care most about, but sometimes we don’t stop long enough to take a look at the bigger picture” -Dr.”

— Francesca Zappia

12. “Ideas are the asexual reproduction of the mind. You don’t have to share them with anyone else.”

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13. “Broken people don’t hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.”

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14. “No, you’re not a bad person,” he said. “And Richter isn’t a bad person, and I’m not a bad person. We’re just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.”

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15. “He has dimples. Sweet Jesus, dimples. I want to stick my fingers in them.”

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16. “How could you convince people of the truth when they had already decided what version of the story they wanted to believe?”

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17. “Be right back,′ I say, and run to the bathroom to curl up on the floor. Just for like five minutes.”

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18. “We create art for many reasons – wealth, fame, love, admiration – but I find the one thing that produces the best results is desire. When you want the thing you’re creating, the beauty of it will shine through, even if the details aren’t all in order. Desire is the fuel of creators, and when we have that, motivation will come in its wake.”

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19. “Nature doesn’t care if we feel so heavy we might sink into the ground and never be able to pull ourselves out again.”

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20. “Sure, I hung out around Red Witch Bridge in the middle of the night, but that was in the cover of the trees with an urban legend and a baseball bat as weapons.”

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21. “It feels like I already know what I want to do, and school is wasting my time. Like they assume we don’t know what we want to do, so they make us keep doing everything. I can’t wait to leave.”

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22. “There is a small monster in my brain that controls my doubt.”

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23. “People are too much sometimes. Friends, acquaintances, enemies, strangers. It doesn’t matter; they all crowd. Even if they’re all the way across the room, they crowd. I take a moment of silence and think: I am here. I am okay.”

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24. “But motivation doesn’t come from nowhere. Like any good monster, you have to feed it.”

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25. “My emotions have been wrung out like a wet washcloth. Like someone cut me open, scrubbed my insides with a stiff brush, and sewed me back up again.”

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26. “Like life, what gives a story its meaning is the fact that it ends. Our stories have lives of their own – and its up to us to make them mean something.”

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27. “I know it sounds weird. Sorry. I don’t think it’ll go well if I know it’s coming. I will definitely freak out and punch you in the face or scream bloody murder or something like that.”

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28. “Do you think the lobsters in the tank try to help the other lobsters? Is that why they pile up like that? Or is it just for company, because they know they’re all doomed? Better.”

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29. “Believing something existed and then finding out it didn’t was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.”

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30. “I am an absolute wreck of a human being, and right now I am completely okay with it.”

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31. “Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.”

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32. “I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.”

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33. “That computer is my rabbit hole; the internet is my wonderland. I am only allowed to fall into it when it doesn’t matter if I get lost.”

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34. “I have to try, because I’m doing it again – I’m shutting everything out because I’m frustrated and tired and because the real world is difficult and I’d rather live in one of my own making.”

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35. “It’s not that I think I’m ugly, I just don’t think about what I look like. I don’t live out there. If I had my way, I wouldn’t look like anything at all. I would be a free-floating consciousness that can also somehow draw. I don’t care how I look. I don’t want to care.”

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36. “I made Monstrous Sea because it’s the story I wanted. I wanted a story like it, and I couldn’t find one, so I created it myself.”

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37. “Blank pages are supposed to be an invitation. A challenge, even. Here is your canvas – how creative can you be? What limits can you stretch to bring to life that creature in your head? A blank piece of paper is infinite possibilities.”

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38. “No one owes you the benefit of the doubt when your actions have shown, repeatedly, and without reparation, that you do not deserve it.”

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39. “Monstrous Sea is mine. I made it, not the other way around. It’s not a parasite, or an obligation, or a destiny. It’s a monster. It’s mine. And I have a battle axe waiting for it.”

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40. “Thanks! Are you feeling okay? You look pale. I’m fine – I always look like this. Like a drowned rat in sweatpants.”

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41. “It looked like the kind of dog that ate babies for breakfast, old men for lunch, and virgin sacrifices for dinner.”

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42. “And you get what I mean when I say I don’t want to spend my life doing something I hate. If you know what you’re meant to do, if you know what you love, why not do that? Find a way to do it, find a way to make money doing it. My dad hated what he did, and I think it made him hate himself, I don’t want to hate myself.”

— Francesca Zappia

43. “She drew so many monsters that she became a monster herself.”

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44. “My heart jumps out of staccato rhythm in my chest and my stomach sloshes around like the great foaming tides of Orcus.”

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45. “Real people don’t have concise character arcs.”

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46. “My body gets excited without my permission, and it’s not okay. It’s out of control. I don’t like out of control, but I like Wallace.”

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47. “I can empathize with characters. Real people are harder. Real people don’t have concise character arcs.”

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48. “My first-ever friend was a hallucination: a sparkling entry on my new resume as a crazy person.”

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49. “He was liked in the way outdoor art installations are liked: for his quirks and his reliable permanence.”

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50. “How can you be mad that something doesn’t happen, when it would hurt another person? If she had to quit for her health, then I’m glad she did. You shouldn’t have to kill yourself for your art.”

— Francesca Zappia