Eliza Victoria > Quotes

“People lose things every day. Most just give up looking and forget.”
― Eliza Victoria, A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories

“All in the name of science and dangerous curiosity”
― Eliza Victoria, Project 17

“Did he bleed?
Well, of course. He took on a human form. That always makes them vulnerable, becoming human.”
― Eliza Victoria, A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories

“Justice can only be delivered by someone who doesn't care to about how much he's paid, or where he is in the chain of command. Someone who's ego won't be inflated by grandeur or power. Someone who won't be influenced by this guy's being the CEO of this or his being the Mayor of that. And let's face it: that someone couldn't be human.”
― Eliza Victoria, Project 17

“So the goal, Ivy, is not to be rich, or to save the planet or to help other people, but to live now. To find joy now.”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers

“The logical thing to do during our short lives is to save the world we find ourselves in. Make it at least livable. Spend our finite energy pressuring governments to focus on the environment. But the world is large.”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers

“Perhaps love can only be felt by beings with limited consciousness. If you love everything then it is as if you love nothing. With limited consciousness, you have no choice but to love one thing, at most a handful of things, and derive fulfillment from them, but also feel wretched and inadequate all your life, for if you lose one thing, what will be left?”
― Eliza Victoria

“So the secret to success is in choosing your battles."
"Isn't that the secret to everything?" Matias said.”
― Eliza Victoria, Nightfall

“Let's say my name is Jonah and he is Louis.

Even here, in this story, I can't make myself tell you our real names.”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers

“What.”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers: A Novel: Winner of the Philippine National Book Award

“They recycle. Cooking oil comes in plastic Coke bottles, vinegar in ketchup containers. The correct ingredients in incorrect vessels. Like Louis and me”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers

“Well, the stupid kids were able to figure out who we really are.”
― Eliza Victoria, Project 17

“Alice ate the Eat Me Cake, the foolish slut”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers

“Weren’t all ‘young’ people the same? Disillusioned, world-weary, bored out of their minds? The constant need for adventure, that constant need to ridicule suburban life and jobs that keep you desk bound and microwavable food and comfort.

Everything was fake and every day had to be a day closer to the genuine. They were always single, these ‘young’ people, childless, unattached, maybe rich. Selfish. He remembered being 'young’ and being horribly, horribly selfish. How infinite he felt. Now he found comfort in the predictability of the train. But he didn’t miss his old self. Even then he knew he was lost.”
― Eliza Victoria, A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories

“You see? We are doomed because we are all connected. But alone, we won't survive. So we are all doomed. Even if you follow all the rules, someone, somewhere, won't, and it will be the end of you”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers

“Did he bleed?"
"Well, of course. He took on a human form. That always make them vulnerable, becoming human.”
― Eliza Victoria, A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories

“They think that one little corner of the internet is private enough.”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers

“Look at you: all you ever wanted was to tell Meryl how you really feel. but you decided not to tell her that because, what? It will break your Catholic mother's heart? You are afraid? Twenty years or twenty minutes from now you will be dead and what do you get out of denying yourself what you want? Nothing”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers

“I don't consider it a flaw. You have the capacity to make your world smaller, and yet make it remain as massive, as important, as the world itself. It's an incredible thing.”
― Eliza Victoria, Seventeen Prayers to the Many-Eyed Mother

“Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life returned to her as the dream disappeared: weekend, hotel room, Baguio, memory, memory, memory.”
― Eliza Victoria, LONTAR #4

“Justice can only be delivered by someone who doesn't care about how much he's paid, or where he is in the chain of command. Someone who's ego won't be inflated by grandeur or power. Someone who wont be influenced by this guy's being a CEO of this or his being a Mayor of that. And let's face it: that someone couldn't be human.”
― Eliza Victoria

“...the world looks at us, points at me and says I eat like a monster. I did not create this body - it was given to me.”
― Eliza Victoria, Dwellers