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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.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Pain
#People
#Black
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I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Beautiful
#Dream
#Home
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Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Goddess
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Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Baby
#Stars
#Attitude
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You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Dog
#Eye
#Old Friends
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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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Francesca Lia Block
#Girl
#Reflection
#Mirrors
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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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Francesca Lia Block
#Order
#Magic
#Matter
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A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Kissing
#Years
#Sea
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Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Healing
#Angel
#Wings
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Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Horse
#Needs
#Littles
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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.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Beautiful
#Mother
#Pain
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Every girl is a goddess.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Girl
#Goddess
#Every Girl
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When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Stars
#Cities
#Wish
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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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Francesca Lia Block
#Dolls
#Looks
#Might
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Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up
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Francesca Lia Block
#Eye
#Light
#Blue
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Love is a dangerous angel.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Love
#Angel
#Love Is
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After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Fall
#Kissing
#Hug
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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.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Flower
#Fighting
#Warrior
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It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Matter
#Impossible
#Persons
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Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Beautiful
#Sunglasses
#Sugar
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Magic can be found in stolen moments.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Magic
#Moments
#Stolen
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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.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Writing
#Character
#Cutting
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All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Girl
#Loneliness
#Heart
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Let's not be afraid of anything that can't really hurt us.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Hurt
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She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the same as the graffiti scrawled outside by taggers who were arrested or killed for it, went to parties in hotel rooms where white-skinned, lingerie-clad rock stars had been staying the night their husbands shot themselves in the head, listened to music in nightclubs where stunning boyish actors had OD'd on the pavement.
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Francesca Lia Block
#Art
#Stars
#Wall
