Bianca Viola > Quotes

“The world was whole then, the sun and moon together as one.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“Somehow the moon still remained, shining its wary life on the world, filled with pain and dread and unspoken secrets.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“He would choose being alone over being lonely in a crowd.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I felt it deep in my bones, beyond the need for survival: the starvation for meaning, for purpose.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“How can you life others up when you're falling?”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“And finally, they were Home.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“He hugged her once more to remind himself that he was still alive, and that he wasn't alone.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“Live... What was it to live? How could we live, when Death was a shadow? How could we live, when we could hardly survive?”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“He wanted to feel ashamed, but he didn't feel anything. He felt nothing. He was numb.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“Secretly, he hoped.
He hoped, he hoped, he hoped.
For now, that was enough.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“It takes a strong, brilliant person to do that—to love the world after it wronged them, not just once but over and over again.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“Where would they be without each other to hold, to cling onto when the other was falling? Who else would grab and pull the hand of the other who was slipping down a dark hole, with no one else to understand them?”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“It should’ve stopped him, to know that his enemies were encouraging him instead of fighting him, but he kept on going.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“Secrets bind us down yet set us free. Love is like that, too.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“In moments like these, we lose control. Our heart takes over, grows into something unstoppable.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“The feeling spreading through us, catching on fire like flames, was vast: It was that of freedom. It echoed through our lungs, tore through our hearts, carried our legs forward.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“You shine in the dark, and that's harder to do than in the light.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“We don't have time, okay? Don't be stupid," I snapped, frustrated.

He leaned in, his eyes searching mine. "All we have is time.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I'm here', the sun seemed to say, 'I'm right here'.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“And he had promised Theo that he would live. Promised. Promised something he never gave. It was broken, a lie told by fear of regret.
Then again, what promise wasn’t?”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I closed my eyes and leaned my head back to face the boundless sky above covered by the darkness of my eyelids, and asked for mercy when there was none; ask for justice where there was corruption; for fleeting light in the sinking darkness; for life when there was only death and an accompanying silence; for rain in the blazing fire, where flames rose and burned and became a paroxysm of war and peace, of beauty and ugliness, of arrival and departure, of the awakened and those asleep, of content and sorrow, of sun and moon.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“We're all in the same boat here, trying to survive.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“In the end, love, if real, cannot die.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I saw it. I saw the look in his eyes, and I was paralyzed.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I’m drowning, drowning above water. And that’s worse than drowning underwater, because no one knows how I struggle for a breath.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I don’t want to die before I get to live.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“Love prevails.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I searched his warm eyes in a failed attempt to find a galaxy in them I hadn't already discovered.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“But only the saddest things can make us feel as deeply as we do.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“Love, feelings, all that mushy stuff—if it was ever real, it never goes away.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth