Blood Roses Quotes

“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, Blood Roses

“Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Blood Roses

“You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Blood Roses

“It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Blood Roses

“The world isn't necessarily going to explode. There will just be vast change. There is hope. It is in the rain forests, the healing plants from there, and in sex and the children who are being born. They have different strains of DNA. They aren't really humans. So they will make the difference.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Blood Roses

“All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?”
― Francesca Lia Block, Blood Roses