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  1. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    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.
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  2. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    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.
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  3. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    My baby brother would never call Hex soft. Not Hex.And not me, either. Not anymore. Not any fucking more.
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  4. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    I embody death, not peace. The only choice in this world we have made from our betrayals and our weakness and our greed.
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  5. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    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.
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  6. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    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.
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  7. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    Take my eye," I say. "I have another.
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  8. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    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.
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  9. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    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.
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  10. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world?
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  11. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    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 . . .
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  12. Francesca Lia Block _ Love in the Time of Global

    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.
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