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The Cities Within Us QUOTES

The Cities Within Us QUOTES

1 " It should’ve stopped him, to know that his enemies were encouraging him instead of fighting him, but he kept on going. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

2 " 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 , The Cities Within Us

3 " 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 , The Cities Within Us

4 " The world was whole then, the sun and moon together as one. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

5 " In the end, love, if real, cannot die. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

6 " 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 , The Cities Within Us

7 " He would choose being alone over being lonely in a crowd. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

8 " Love, feelings, all that mushy stuff—if it was ever real, it never goes away. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

9 " I'm here', the sun seemed to say, 'I'm right here'. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

10 " Somehow the moon still remained, shining its wary life on the world, filled with pain and dread and unspoken secrets. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

11 " If truth is the best form of honor, success is the best form of justice. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

12 " 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 , The Cities Within Us

13 " You shine in the dark, and that's harder to do than in the light. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

14 " I watch you and I think I'm in love. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

15 " I don’t want to die before I get to live. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

16 " I saw it. I saw the look in his eyes, and I was paralyzed. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

17 " 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 , The Cities Within Us

18 " We're all in the same boat here, trying to survive. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

19 " I felt it deep in my bones, beyond the need for survival: the starvation for meaning, for purpose. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us

20 " I searched his warm eyes in a failed attempt to find a galaxy in them I hadn't already discovered. "

― Bianca Viola , The Cities Within Us