Top 100 Francesca Quotes
#1. A feeling erupted in my stomach, like nothing would ever be the same again. Like good karma was catching up with me. Like someone had opened up the lid to my lobster tank and I was finally breathing in the shockingly fresh air.
Francesca Zappia
#2. Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.
Francesca Lia Block
#3. Things aren't always what they seem
You're only seeing part of me
There's more than you could ever know
Behind the scenes.
Francesca Battistelli
#5. We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.
Francesca Martinez
#6. Spun sugar clouds and extraterrestrial crystal vintage T-birds flying through space, morning-glory girls swinging from star-hung vines in cosmic gardens.
Francesca Lia Block
#8. I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
Francesca Annis
#9. I was in the ensemble and also covered the parts of Dee Dee and Mary!! I had a fantastic time doing this show especially when we performed in places like Cardiff and Glasgow where the audiences were just so enthusiastic, joining in with all the songs and up on their feet dancing at the end!!
Francesca Jackson
#10. I think you're an improvement on my imagination," I said, flipping back through the pages.
"You, too," he said. "My imagination - well, what little imagination I have - doesn't quite live up to the real thing."
"Agreed," I said. "The real thing is much better.
Francesca Zappia
#12. How could anyone go this far down the rabbit hole without realizing they needed help?
Francesca Zappia
#13. I think part of me doesn't want to remember him, for fear of missing him too much.
Francesca Marciano
#14. I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
Francesca Lia Block
#15. Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.
Francesca Lia Block
#16. The night was a rush of steaming pasta, wet irises, Italian leathers, swaddled beggars, skulking boys, sulking girls, garbage piles, pretzel vendors.
Francesca Lia Block
#17. Francesca couldn't say anything, because that would just make her mother feel even worse, and so
instead they stood there as they always did, thinking the same thing but never speaking of it, wondering
which of them hurt more.
Julia Quinn
#18. We try on different dresses, different selves, but our souls are always the same - ongoing, full of light.
Francesca Lia Block
#19. How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.
Francesca Martinez
#20. Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.
Francesca Marciano
#21. Maybe that's normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.
Francesca Zappia
#22. From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
Francesca Annis
#23. Yeah. I told you he was crazy, right? I heard he does some weird stuff at home, too.' He said it with a conspiratorial stage whisper. 'Like mowing his lawn, and trimming his peonies.'
'Peonies?' I balked. 'God, he really is a freak.
Francesca Zappia
#25. I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again.
Francesca Lia Block
#26. You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.
[Francesca] 'We did.'
V: 'And he trusts you?'
F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.
Blake Charlton
#27. THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE
has nothing to do with melodrama
It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions
I was (am?) not unique but special.
This is why I was an artist
Francesca Woodman
#29. When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
Francesca Lo Schiavo
#30. A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
Francesca Woodman
#31. Dear Asshole: Thank you for keeping your word and believing me. It was more than I expected. Also, I'm sorry you were inconvenienced by my gluing your locker shut at the beginning of this year. However, I am not sorry that I did it, because it was a lot of fun. Love, Alex.
Francesca Zappia
#33. Survivors. What better word for people who made it out of this place alive?" -Alex
Francesca Zappia
#34. I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
Francesca Annis
#35. We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
Francesca Annis
#36. Over time, the real remained in the photo while the hallucinations faded away. I discovered what sorts of things my mind liked to make up.
Francesca Zappia
#37. There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
Francesca Annis
#38. I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
Francesca Annis
#40. Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.
Robert James Waller
#41. Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.
Francesca Lia Block
#42. Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
Francesca Lia Block
#44. If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.
Francesca Lia Block
#45. I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
Francesca Lia Block
#46. Some people think you begin to grow up when you stop trying to figure out who you are.
Francesca Lia Block
#48. The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling.
Francesca Gregorini
#49. My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
Francesca Annis
#50. My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
Francesca Annis
#51. Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above.
Francesca Marciano
#52. In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.
Francesca DiMattio
#53. So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid."
"Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot."
"Thanks!
Melina Marchetta
#54. What are you going to do if you find art, Pen? You going to steal some and put it in the van?"
"I'm going to remember. When there was art.
Francesca Lia Block
#55. I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
Francesca Annis
#56. 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
#58. I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, because that's just about everyone. I didn't hate them. They didn't live in my world.
But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs.
Francesca Zappia
#59. Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.
Francesca Marciano
#60. What shall we do? All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, and watermelon hearts?
Francesca Lia Block
#61. The desire to create holds an element of hope. Success proves that Hope is not a by-product of living; it is a Building Block of life."
Francesca Quarto
Francesca Quarto
#62. He slid his hands around behind me and placed his fingers on my shoulder blades, touching the bones reverently, as if he had discovered wings.
Francesca Lia Block
#64. I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.
Francesca Annis
#65. I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin - if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.
Francesca Lia Block
#66. Are you lovers?"
"Excuse me?"
"Do you mind my asking you?"
"Yes."
"It's off the record."
"Then why do you need to know?"
Daniel Moore smiled. A large, happy smile.
"Because I would like to ask you to dinner.
Francesca Marciano
#68. In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
Francesca Annis
#71. I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers.
"Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?"
"Not just 'some guy'." I tell him. "The guy.
Melina Marchetta
#72. His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place ... The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe it made him bleed inside. I wondered if it hurt, if it burned in his throat.
Francesca Lia Block
#73. West didn't want her to get hurt anymore. He wanted her to let go. He wanted her to appreciate her life. To know he loved her. All these things sounded so stupid to him when he imagined saying them and he knew she didn't want to hear them anyway. She wanted to hear one thing.
Francesca Lia Block
#74. Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover Man and Dirk and Duck and Cherokee and Witch Baby and Slinkster Dog and Go-Go Girl and the puppies Pee Wee, Wee Wee, Teenie Wee, Tiki Tee, and Tee Pee were driving down Hollywood Boulevard on their way to the Tick Tock Tea Room for turkey platters.
Francesca Lia Block
#75. You still cry too easily, but without your tears, at least, everything would burn. You are Spring in your jeans, in the laughing leaves. I think pearls melted over your bones.
Francesca Lia Block
#78. One of the best things about sex with a Banshee, however, is that she will make her needs known freely.
Francesca Lia Block
#79. As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
Francesca Annis
#80. The Council's expanding the refuges, at least, but it's still nonsensical.
Francesca Haig
#81. for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground
for burned mermaids and sick vampire girls
for wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair
Francesca Lia Block
#82. Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.
Francesca Gregorini
#83. I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year. She didn't save anything. She played the camera like a new guitar. She murdered herself out taking pictures ...
Richard Prince
#84. Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.
Francesca Lia Block
#85. Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.
Francesca Lia Block
#86. She wears a Val Surf T-shirt and boys' boxer shorts and she has a boy's phone number scrawled on her hand. Part of her wants to spit on it and rub it off, and part of her wishes it was written in huge numbers across her belly, his name in gang letters, like a tattoo.
Francesca Lia Block
#87. Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
Francesca Gregorini
#89. Yeah, we never said we liked you," said Ian, smiling. "We just prefer that you don't die.
Francesca Zappia
#90. My baby brother would never call Hex soft. Not Hex.
And not me, either. Not anymore. Not any fucking more.
Francesca Lia Block
#91. I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
Francesca Annis
#94. I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me.
Just tell me where you are.
Melina Marchetta
#96. I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets.
Francesca Marciano
#98. She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never remember who you are unless someone else shows it to you.
Francesca Lia Block
#99. I have got a few misters interested but nobody special these days.
Francesca Annis
#100. You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.
Francesca Marciano
