Dani Chan

“She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.”
― Francesca Lia Block, The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

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

“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.”
― Francesca Lia Block

“He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.”
― Francesca Lia Block, The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold