243 Quotes by Francesca Lia Block

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.

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.

The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters.

Part of me wanted to swoon into nothing, but the other women’s bones were talking. I didn’t see the bones but I knew they were there, under the house. The little runaway bones of skinny, hungry girls who didn’t think they were worth much – anything – so they stayed after the party was over and let Derrick Blue tell them his stories. He probable didn’t even have to use much force on most of them.

Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover Man and Dirk and Duck and Cherokee and Witch Baby and Slinkster Dog and Go-Go Girl and the puppies Pee Wee, Wee Wee, Teenie Wee, Tiki Tee, and Tee Pee were driving down Hollywood Boulevard on their way to the Tick Tock Tea Room for turkey platters.

I’ll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won’t be.

My breath clouded the air like a little ghost escaping from my body.

Weetzie wished she could shake blue glitter around all of them – keeping them sparkling and safe.