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Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1) QUOTES

Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1) QUOTES

1 " He might be faithless but I believe in him. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

2 " They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical at this phase, girls are invincible, nothing can touch them. I didn’t think ‘us’ because I didn’t feel that; I felt other, on the outside, watching them. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

3 " My reading and studying and retellings of old stories didn't do anything except help me think better. I was at least thoughtful. Too thoughtful, my friends said. And all I thought about was myths and old paintings that made me feel drunk on wine or struck my lightning but didn't matter to most people. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

4 " The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

5 " Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

6 " Ash swirls in the air and the landscape is gray rubble that falls away into the sea. They kept saying global warming wan't going to be the end of us, that it was just threats from the fanatics, that we didn't have to make changes. But every year there were more earthquakes and flood and hurricanes and fires- every element expressing its imbalance. Every year the temperatures soared and the ice melted and no one did anything. My pink house - no longer mine - stands on the edge of nowhere like a rose in a Salvador Dali surrealist desert landscape . . . "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

7 " We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world? "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

8 " It's scary to feel this much in such a dangerous world. Even if what you feel, overwhelmingly, like inhaling the precious, still-surviving existing earth, is not fear but love. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

9 " Take my eye," I say. "I have another. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

10 " I am not a hero, I am not Odysseus, there are no gods or goddesses guiding me. All I have is myself. And Hex's sword. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

11 " I close my eyes. I am the visionary, the one-eyed seer, the storyteller. I am Pen. I can fight with the power of images and words. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

12 " I embody death, not peace. The only choice in this world we have made from our betrayals and our weakness and our greed. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

13 " Maybe I'm afraid of the sword not because I think I might fail to defend us but because I'm not so certain I won't give up and turn it on myself. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

14 " The homes of so many skeletons. People who used to fight over the last blueberry muffin at the breakfast table, get down on their knees to scrub bathroom floors, and kiss one another good night, thinking they were at least relatively safe. Now they are just dust in the debris. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

15 " 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 , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

16 " My baby brother would never call Hex soft. Not Hex.
And not me, either. Not anymore. Not any fucking more. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)

17 " They kept saying global warming wasn't going to be the end of us, that it was just theatre from the fanatics, that we didn't have to make changes. But every year there were more earthquakes and floods and hurricanes and fires - every element expressing the earth's imbalance. "

― Francesca Lia Block , Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1)