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61 " I'm not normally one to take advice from my fictional characters, but there comes a point in every girl's life where she reaches a crossroads: a night alone with her sweatpants and her favorite television show, or a party with real, live, breathing people. "
― Francesca Zappia , Eliza and Her Monsters
62 " Real people don’t have concise character arcs. "
63 " I don't want to be the girl who freezes when confronted with new friends, or the outside world, or the smallest shred of intimacy. I don't want to be alone in a room all the time. I don't want to feel alone in a room all the time, even when there are other people around. "
64 " Creating art is a lonely task, which is why we introverts revel in it, but when we have fans looming over us, it becomes loneliness of a different sort. We become cage animals watched by zoo-goers, expected to perform lest the crowd grow bored or angry. It's not always bad. Sometimes we do well, and the cage feels more like a pedestal "
65 " I made Monstrous Sea because it's the story I wanted. I wanted a story like it, and I couldn't find one, so I created it myself. "
66 " Wallace: What's the point of being alive if you don't do what makes you happy? What good is a career that makes you money if you hate yourself every day you do it? "
67 " Was everything made up? Was this whole world inside my head? If I ever woke up from it, would I be inside a padded room somewhere, drooling all over myself?Would I even be myself? "
― Francesca Zappia , Made You Up
68 " I do have friends. Maybe they live hundreds of miles away from me, and maybe I can only talk to them through a screen, but they're still my friends. They don't just hold Monstrous Sea together. They hold me together.Max and Emmy are the reason any of this exists. "
69 " That's what I like about the internet-that it gives you time to think about what you want to say before you say it. "
70 " If I like a book, I devour it in one sitting, and then I forget a lot. It's fine with me, because I read them over and over again. "
71 " Monstrous Sea is mine. I made it, not the other way around. It's not a parasite, or an obligation, or a destiny. It's a monster. It's mine. And I have a battle axe waiting for it. "
72 " He had to be real. Out of everything, he had to be real. "
73 " Nature doesn’t care if we feel so heavy we might sink into the ground and never be able to pull ourselves out again. "
74 " I pushed myself back up. He kept staring at me. I realized I wanted to kiss him.I didn't know why. Maybe it was the way he looked at me like I was the only thing he wanted to look at. "
75 " There is a small monster in my brain that controls my doubt. "
76 " That computer is my rabbit hole; the internet is my wonderland. I am only allowed to fall into it when it doesn’t matter if I get lost. "
77 " He remembers you," said June, and my stomach gave an odd stunted flop."Remembers me?""The girl who wanted to set the lobsters free. That was the day we left for Germany. I was shopping for a few last-minute things, and he wanted to talk to you. He liked your hair. "
78 " I grabbed his hand. He jumped and stared at the connection like something both magical and dangerous had happened."Do you wanna be friends?" I asked. "
79 " „Wallace.”He looks up.„I want to be happy,” I say.„Me too,” he says. "
80 " The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes. "