“She wanted to run and run forever, until she reached the border. She imagined it as an endless row of dark angel children with wish bracelets in their hands and thorns around their necks, sitting in the dirt and singing behind barbed wire.”

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-Francesca Lia Block

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The Bohemian Intellectual: Francesca Lia Block

“If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister. The…

Francesca Lia Block says put yourself in every character you write but how can I when she’s already written every part of me in every character she’s ever created? I am Ruby and I am La and I am Berry Rodriquez and Elodie Sweet and Valentina and Echo, especially Echo. I am Echo with my mousy hair and my pinched features and small frame and no father and hating every single part of myself and so completely lost. 

- wearethesea

“She told her own versions of fairy tales, about how the prince did not kiss the princess awake but made love to her to bring her back to life, about how the beast never changed into a prince but gave Beauty little beast children who gnawed savagely at her breasts.”
Echo by Francesca Lia Block
“I dreamed of my body all light and shadows in yards of sheer white lace.”
Echo by Francesca Lia Block
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My stomach made noises like a cat as I curled up under the blankets. I did not shut my eyes. I did not wat to see what was there in my head-the naked body, all bones and whiteness. I could not escape the voice that easily.
I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty.

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I had tried not to let my father know about the cat in my stomach, the way my skin bruised at a touch, the metallic ache of my teeth. How the only thing that made me feel calm was seeing the scale register less and less weight.

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Echo by Francesca Lia Block (via wearethesea)
“I could smell the rain that had soaked into him, starring his eyelashes. I tried not to think of how I kissed those eyelids, how the eyelids trembled when he came.”
Echo by Francesca Lia Block (via wearethesea)
“…but I want to smash my reflections so in the mirror I’ll look like I feel, pieces, but if you break a mirror there are just more whole little yous in every piece.”
Francesca Lia Block (in ‘Missing Angel Juan’)

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