Victoria Avilan > Quotes

“I'm again a twelve-year old dreamer, a girl fascinated by an ancient piano and with Rona Lubliner's fingers.”
― Victoria Avilan, A Small Country about to Vanish

“Perfect vision only gets in the way, Kyra thought. We all look better when the lights are out.”
― Victoria Avilan, The Art of Peeling an Orange

“I look around the room slowly, my loving gaze caressing the part of you Hades could not and will never have. I will keep my promise. I will show your work. In hundreds of years, when we are all dust, people”
― Victoria Avilan, The Art of Peeling an Orange

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.―Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Victoria Avilan, The Art of Peeling an Orange

“The Moonlight Sonata” envelops me again, and my mind follows its slow progression, returning me to a land so small and hungry, it devours its inhabitants, first sheltering them, then soaking in their blood.”
― Victoria Avilan, A Small Country about to Vanish