“Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!” Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. “People in fairy tales wish for that all the time,” the genie said. “They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.” PeopleWorldSaidWishNumbersRecordsStupidTypeOkayInfiniteSorryTalesLeagueFairyGrantsFairy TaleCantI Am SorryAm SorryGenies Author:Francesca Lia Block
“When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world.” WorldFirstsStoriesPrayerKissingOceanEdgesThanksBeachBottlesPacificFirst Kiss Book:Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop Source: Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop
“Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.” WorldWholeHappensBeautifulWhole WorldReliefCrystalsFrostRelievedAway From YouLace Author:Francesca Lia Block
“She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.” WorldFeelsHeartFeelingsEyePainSongChangedIceHis EyesEmbedded Author:Francesca Lia Block
“I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?” WorldMy OwnSawsBlood Book:Weetzie Bat Source: Weetzie Bat
“It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.” IfsWorldLooksLittlesSaidRealityKidsGamesAngelTransformationWarriorCuteCoveredLittle KidWizardsIvyBackyards Author:Francesca Lia Block
“That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it's a world that's so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own.” WorldWayLooksMeanKidsWonderCreativeCuttingBloodDangerousExpressionArmsSkinsDeeperBonesInjuryKeep GoingBladesRazorsCreative ExpressionSelf InjuryGrazing Author:Francesca Lia Block
“It's not that I literally think I'm a fearie. It's just that I feel so different from most people. And this idea of a race living underground in caverns, spending all their days dancing and playing the fiddle and eating flowers and reciting poetry and sharing their dreams, that to me sounds much more real than the way people live in this world, hating and fighting and wanting and hurting.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsIdeasDifferentRealDreamHateFightingSoundHurtRaceThis WorldFlowerEatingDancingSpendingFiddleRecitingCaverns Author:Francesca Lia Block
“It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.” WorldEnoughThis WorldMessagesScaryChecks Author:Francesca Lia Block
