Top 120 Francesca Zappia Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Maybe that’s normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.”

— Francesca Zappia

52. “If nothing’s real, then what does it matter?” he said. “You live here. Doesn’t that make it real enough?”

— Francesca Zappia

53. “I do have friends. Maybe they live hundreds of miles away from me, and maybe I can only talk to them through a screen, but they’re still my friends.”

— Francesca Zappia

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

— Francesca Zappia

55. “I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be the person whose color comes through even when standing still.”

— Francesca Zappia

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

— Francesca Zappia

57. “You smell like lemons.”

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58. “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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59. “That’s what I like about the internet-that it gives you time to think about what you want to say before you say it.”

— Francesca Zappia

60. “How could anyone go this far down the rabbit hole without realizing they needed help?”

— Francesca Zappia

61. “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.”

— Francesca Zappia

62. “I learned years ago that it’s okay to do this. To seek out small spaces for myself, to stop and imagine myself alone.”

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63. “It makes no earthly sense how another person can do this. Not even with words, just touches. Just looks. He just looks at me and I feel simultaneously like myself and someone else, like I’m here and I’m not, like everything and nothing.”

— Francesca Zappia

64. “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.”

— Francesca Zappia

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

— Francesca Zappia

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

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

— Francesca Zappia

68. “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

69. “Have you ever seen it in your parents? That moment when they become people? I think you have. It sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? One day they’re parents, and the next they say something racist, or get a cut that takes too long to heal, or make a simple mistake driving, and a facade falls away and they become mortals like the rest of us. After the facade is gone, it can never come back” -Wallace.”

— Francesca Zappia

70. “My mother had removed my intestines and used them to tie a noose around my neck. She just hadn’t kick the stool out from under me yet.”

— Francesca Zappia

71. “Worth as a person is not based on any tangible evidence. There’s no test for it, no scale. Everyone’s got their own idea of what it is.”

— Francesca Zappia

72. “Our neighbors turned to stare at us, because Miles Richter laughing was one of those things that the Mayans had predicted would signal the end of the world. He wasn’t particularly loud about it, but it was Miles laughing, a sound no mortal had ever heard before.”

— Francesca Zappia

73. “Survivors. What better word for people who made it out of this place alive?”

— Francesca Zappia

74. “I bet college doesn’t have parking issues like this.”

— Francesca Zappia

75. “There’s more to life than stories, Eliza.”

— Francesca Zappia

76. “You can have people who call themselves your friends and you can still be alone.”

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77. “I start to say no, then stop myself. I have to try. 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. But I can’t. I am here, and I have to try.”

— Francesca Zappia

78. “I feel like someone told a joke and I missed the punchline, and now everyone’s laughing without me.”

— Francesca Zappia

79. “What you loved as a child, you will love forever.”

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80. “There is a small monster in my brain that controls my doubt. The doubt itself is a stupid thing, without sense or feeling, blind and straining at the end of a long chain. The monster, though, is smart. It’s always watching, and when I am completely sure of myself, it unchains the doubt and lets it run wild. Even when I know it’s coming, I can’t stop it.”

— Francesca Zappia

81. “If I like a book, I devour it in one sitting, and then I forget a lot. It’s fine with me, because I read them over and over again.”

— Francesca Zappia

82. “Made you breakfast. Are you feeling okay? You look a little gray.” I grunt. Morning is the devil’s time.”

— Francesca Zappia

83. “That computer is my rabbit hole; the internet is my wonderland.”

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84. “Thank god. I thought I had cabin fever or something.” “High school fever.” “High school fever: like The Shining, but with teenagers.”

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85. “Creating art is a lonely task, which is why we introverts revel in it, but when we have fans.”

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86. “People say teenagers think they’re immortal, and I agree with that. But I think there’s a difference between thinking you’re immortal and knowing you can survive. Thinking you’re immortal leads to arrogance, thinking you deserve the best. Surviving means having the worst thrown at you and being able to continue on despite that. It means striving for what you want most, even when it seems our of your reach, even when everything is working against you.”

— Francesca Zappia

87. “People are too much sometimes. Friends, acquaintances, enemies, strangers. It doesn’t matter; they all crowd.”

— Francesca Zappia

88. “A feeling erupted in my stomach, like nothing would ever be the same again. Like good karma was catching up with me. Like someone had opened up the lid to my lobster tank and I was finally breathing in the shockingly fresh air.”

— Francesca Zappia

89. “Eliza Mirk is barely a footnote in anyone’s life. Including mine.”

— Francesca Zappia

90. “She saw ghosts. No one really believed that, and she didn’t want them to, because it was true.”

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91. “Yeah, we never said we liked you,” said Ian, smiling. “We just prefer that you don’t die.”

— Francesca Zappia

92. “Do you ever feel,” he said, “like there’s something wrong with the world but you don’t know what it is?”

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93. “It is weird for him to point it out. No one points out how I look. I am not a “point out how she looks” kind of girl.”

— Francesca Zappia

94. “Everyone’s interesting if you stare at them long enough.”

— Francesca Zappia

95. “The only thing missing was Miles. But he was probably circling somewhere, destroying villages and hoarding gold in his mountain lair.”

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96. “I was a schizophrenic, not a damn invalid.”

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97. “It’s a strange feeling to like someone so much and yet be terrified to have them in your space, touching you. It isn’t that I don’t like it when we touch- when we brush arms or when he taps me on the shoulder or when I pick a piece of lint off his shirt. I like it too much. My body gets excited without my permission, and it’s not okay. It’s out of control.”

— Francesca Zappia

98. “I’m not going. I like to tell myself I might go – I like to tell myself I might do a lot of things – but I and my brain and everyone else know that I’m going to chicken out in the end and barricade myself in my bedroom with a plate of pizza rolls and my Netflix subscription.”

— Francesca Zappia

99. “Where Monstrous Sea once wrapped around my heart, there is nothing anymore. Maybe that’s normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.”

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100. “Anyone who thinks that’s an easy way out hasn’t had to face it.”

— Francesca Zappia