Beth Revis Quotes
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You want to just dump me in space? My voice is low, but not for long. It's not like I've done anything wrong! I didn't wake myself up, you know!
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Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.
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He sounds like a regular Hitler to me", Amy mutters. I wonder what she means by that. Eldest has always taught me that Hitler was a wise, cultured leader for his people. Maybe that's what she means: Eldest is a strong leader, like Hitler was.
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She was a good person. She didn’t deserve to die. I don’t think it works that way.
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That's all you need to know about Godspeed. Although you should also know this. I am Eldest.
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She stares back into me, as if we are both seeking a humanity that neither of us has.
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Memories always kill nightmares.
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I'm sorry. The two most inadequate words in the English language.
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Don’t you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.
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Power was passion. That hunger - it was desire. A voracious need and longing to consume, to become one.
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I may have spent the morning tracking down a lunatic thanks to a holographic image of my dad, hallucinated, and wound up in a potential terrorist’s office where I had a super weird conversation, but at least pastizzi are normal.
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I can see, for just a moment, his beating heart in his ribcage, and then that, too, withers and dies, the useless, blackened lump tapping against his ribs before plopping out of his body.
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He treats books like treasured, rare things, and I guess they are, but my father used to dog-ear books and read them until they fell apart, and I like his method better.
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I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life. This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.
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We're not ignoring the problem, not really. We're all aware it's there, even Bo. We see the edges of this new Bo, this Bo who's special, different. We're not ignoring it. We're just carefully, carefully avoiding it.
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Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn’t have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.
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They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky.
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We fall into each other. All the other voices in my head--the fear, the doubt, the worry--are drowned out. I die at the end of each kiss and am brought gasping back to life at the beginning of the next. I close my eyes and the entire world fades away.
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It's Elder who's my safe place. Elder's my home.
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The sea is a dangerous place because it makes you believe in forever.
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My heart stutters—not why? or how?—those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?
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I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here’s the simple truth—if I hadn’t taken the ship off Phydus, people like ***** and ******* would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can’t tell me their side.
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This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you.
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As soon as the words slip past my lips, I wish I could grab them with my hands and crush them in my fists. But I can’t. The words are there.