243 Quotes by Francesca Lia Block

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.

It’s important to tell your story. It’s important to listen.

She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there – you can’t see or smell or hear, touch or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead.

The girl in the mirror wasn’t who I wanted to be and her life wasn’t the one I wanted to have.

Take my eye,” I say. “I have another.

You can’t doubt so much, Psyche.

Hopefully, when you are young, you discover something called love, which is really just another name for going home.

If Death is your father, you don’t ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don’t have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

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