“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.” IfsFirstsLooksLightCoursesWishStarsAttitudeFeetSkyCarBabyBreathsTeethShootingPlanesCandleLiftingTunnelsShooting StarFeet Off The GroundBaby Teeth Author:Francesca Lia Block
“I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.” LooksChildrenStillsBodyHandsLightEyeFacesMovingAnimalHairPureEmptyMirrorsGlassesBonesShouldersCupsHipsPaleCagesSkullsThighsSeventeenRibsBruisedRib Cage Book:The Hanged Man Source: The Hanged Man
“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” LightWould BeEyeSeaSkinsBlueGreenShiningFishesCurrentsFleshTinyThickShellsMerryExoticMermaidUnderwaterFingernailsSeaweedJadeShining Through Author:Francesca Lia Block
“At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.” FirstsTwoLightTogetherGirlBlackDarkSpaceWhitePerfectCitiesWindHairShadowDressesDawnButterflyMidnightVioletPurpleBlondeMothsPoniesRantRaveDark Hair Author:Francesca Lia Block
“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.” ArtLightNightActorsStarsWhiteRoomsPartyCitiesRocksWallHusbandShotsHotelStayingRock StarArrestedGalleryStunningHotel RoomsGraffitiPavementNightclubsLingerieBoyish Author:Francesca Lia Block
“The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of rain caught on Rafe's eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She was on the rope again, her skirt flashing with tiny mirrors, hair braided with petals. He looked up at her, dizzy with it, seeing her face framed in the parasol. There were bluish shadows around her eyes.” LightEyeFacesSeeingFlowerHairShadowRainMirrorsCaughtTinyPaleFabricHer EyesLitRopeCircusSkirtsTentsPetalsFramedDizzyEyelashesSlitsParasols Author:Francesca Lia Block
“You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink Cadillac, my highway, my martini, the stage for my heart to rock and roll on, the screen where my movies light up.” HeartLightSkyRocksStageMy HeartHollywoodFishesScreensLakesRock And RollHighwaysLight UpMiniaturesMartiniCadillacs Book:Weetzie Bat Source: Weetzie Bat
“You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew.” WayLightUniverseBitsRoomsBoysSawsPiecesPlanetsFlowerBrokenBedInfiniteGlassesCellsRainbowInsectsShiftingTubesDividingKaleidoscopeBroken GlassInfinite Universe Book:Wasteland Source: Wasteland
“I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions.” WayTryingLightDarkEmotionMy WayComforting Author:Francesca Lia Block
