Dwellers Quotes

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“...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

“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