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The Waters & the Wild QUOTES

The Waters & the Wild QUOTES

1 " Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing. "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Waters & the Wild

2 " Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms. "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Waters & the Wild

3 " Hopefully, when you are young, you discover something called love, which is really just another name for going home. "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Waters & the Wild

4 " And then--with the curse, or, in this case, blessing, of the unpopular, the unathletic, the overweight, the strange--they vanished like shadows into the spring night. "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Waters & the Wild

5 " If you made up a city like this, no one would have believed you. It seemed more like myth than reality- a whole metropolis built up around an industry that recorded dreams on giant screens, a city bordered by an ocean and a desert and snowcapped mountains. And right through the urban sprawl were canyons full of flowers, wild animals and secrets. "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Waters & the Wild

6 " No, I’m all right. I think I’m just over-stimulated or something.”
“Do you want to explain that one to me? Do we need to take you to buy some condoms?”
“Mom! No. "

― Francesca Lia Block , The Waters & the Wild