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Francesca Lia Block Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If death is your lover, you don’t got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you Picture Quote #1

Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will Picture Quote #1

After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I’m done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions Picture Quote #1

Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don’t be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be Picture Quote #1

I didn’t tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn’t understand and could never run away from. It was myself Picture Quote #1

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating Picture Quote #1

Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder Picture Quote #1

Maybe he was real. Maybe I’d made him up. Either way, he didn’t think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) 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 (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) If death is your lover, you don’t got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) 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 Quotes) Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) 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 Quotes) I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) 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 (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I’m done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) 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 (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don’t be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) 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 (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) I didn’t tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn’t understand and could never run away from. It was myself (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder (Francesca Lia Block Quotes) Maybe he was real. Maybe I’d made him up. Either way, he didn’t think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right (Francesca Lia Block Quotes)

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