Esther Flores > Esther's Quotes

“It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.”
― Gary Soto

“going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere”
― Gary Soto, Buried Onions

“I drank that sentence and began to glow.”
― Gary Soto, Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing – Emotionally Resonant YA Verse About First Crushes and Heartbreak

“You are in my blood. I can't help it. We can't be anywhere except together.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat

“Magic can be found in stolen moments.”
― Francesca Lia Block

“I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

“What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?”
― Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat

“Any love that is love is right.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

“Love is a dangerous angel.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat

“This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Violet & Claire

“Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.”
― Francesca Lia Block, The Hanged Man

“In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.”
― Francesca Lia Block

“You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

“I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be. ”
― Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland

“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



”
― Francesca Lia Block

“The most Beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex”
― Francesca Lia Block

“Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Necklace of Kisses

“The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Pink Smog

“If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland

“What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?”
― Francesca Lia Block, Missing Angel Juan

“Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.”
― Francesca Lia Block

“Weetzie wished she could shake blue glitter around all of them - keeping them sparkling and safe.”
― Francesca Lia Block

“Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Echo

“Every girl is a goddess.”
― Francesca Lia Block

“I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop

“Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”
― Francesca Lia Block

“Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat

“I dont know about happily ever after… but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought..”
― Francesca Lia Block

“Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland

“Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.”
― Francesca Lia Block, The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold