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VJ Campilan is a content writer specializing in tech, science, and business trends. All My Lonely Islands was her thesis for her MFA Creative Writing degree, after which it won the Grand Prize for the 2015 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, the Philippines' most prestigious and long-running literary award. It also won the Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award and the Gintong Aklat Award. It was recently announced as a finalist for the 37th National Book Awards (Manila).

All My Lonely Islands is currently available at NBS, PowerBooks, Anvil Publishing Online, Amazon & Kobo.

VJ resides in Manila.

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“...I have often wondered why we do it. Uproot ourselves, I mean. Why we feel the need to travel and wander into strange soil. Why we can't leave things alone. It must be the world calling to us. After all, they say it had been one giant continent once. Maybe this is why we feel drawn to each other, to the lands we cannot see. We think of new places as opportunities to build new lives, but all are we're really doing is trying to find our way back.”
― V.J. Campilan, All My Lonely Islands

tags: home, journey, lands, travel, wandering, world

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“You must think I don’t know what’s keeping you up at night. You must think we’re so different. But I know. Everyone knows despair. Isn’t that why people jump off bridges or drown themselves? Anything, really, to escape being human.”
― V.J. Campilan, All My Lonely Islands

tags: despair

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“You’re trying to look for rock bottom, to that part of yourself that could no longer feel pain. But there is no such thing as rock bottom. As long as there is left to destroy in you, you’d do it. We always feel the need to sink ourselves because we keep being intolerable, because if we’re suffering then maybe people would give us a break for all the shameful things we do. You think you could impose your own penance, but it never goes away, does it? That kind of deadening that’s worse than actual dying.”
― V.J. Campilan, All My Lonely Islands

tags: despair, pain

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