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. β¨ Francesca Lia Block (2009). The Hanged Man, p.14, Harper Collins
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- My mother said, kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone β¨ Francesca Lia Block (2009). How to (Un)cage a Girl, p.7, β¦ βΆ
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