Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?

— Francesca Lia Block

But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.

— Francesca Lia Block

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

— Francesca Lia Block

Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves, and it always felt at the end fulfilled, not meaningless and empty like life can sometimes feel.

— Francesca Lia Block

For frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground for burned mermaids and sick vampire girls for wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair

— Francesca Lia Block

He might be faithless but I believe in him.

— Francesca Lia Block

I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

— Francesca Lia Block

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 wind songs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.

— Francesca Lia Block

If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you

— Francesca Lia Block

If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn or eggplant or Egyptian henna, depending on her mood. Her skin is pale as frost, and she wears beautiful Jil Sander suits and Prada pumps on which she walks faster than a speeding taxi (when it is caught in rush hour, that is). Furthermore, her lips are some unlikely shade of copper or violet, courtesy of her local MAC drag queen makeup consultant.

— Francesca Lia Block