Beth Revis Quotes
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It's Elder who's my safe place. Elder's my home.
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I want to take her into my arms and hold her tight. But at the same time, I know that is the exact opposite of what she wants. She wants to be free, and all I want is to hold her tight against me.
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How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.
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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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This ship is built on secrets; it runs on secrets. And if you keep asking about them, you'll see how far I'm willing to go to keep mine.
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I have no idea why she needs them. I just know that I'd face another plague to get them for her if I had to. Fortunately, it's a lot easier than that.
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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.
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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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I feel the darkness inside me like a creature curled up in my chest, breathing smoke and fire. It is always there. It weighs on me. It's not contained by anything but my own skin. Sometimes it sleeps. Sometimes it doesn't.
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All of them?” I ask. I could almost understand her need to awaken her parents, but we don’t need to add nearly a hundred frozen people to the cacophony of voices around us.
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Everyone has wounds; everyone pretends they don’t.
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If someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back.
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We wanted to protect some planets that the Empire wanted to destroy. Not outright, not even the Empire’s that evil.
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I quit thinking.
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Sorry? Sorry? Sorry isn't enough. Every. Single. Thing. I ever loved is beyond my reach now. Everything I ever wanted. Everything I ever was.
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And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.
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He doesn’t look like a man who’s contemplating treason. He looks terrified.
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The first cause of discord is difference. There is no religion on Godspeed. We all speak the same language. We're all monoethnic. And because we are not different, we don't fight. Remember the Crusades I taught you? The genocides? We will never have to worry about those types of horrific events on Godspeed.
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Old people die. It's what they do.
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If you love someone – deeply, in as true a way as you can – you will get hurt. People leave us and love falls apart, and when it does, it hurts. It should hurt. How can you not hurt when what you love is gone?
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I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.
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I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.
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FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero always wins. Because while this story is inspiring, it’s also false. In reality, not everyone wins. It’s 100% true that no one wills all the time, and we expect that—every hero must fall at least once. But it’s also 100% true that some people never win at all, and that’s the thing we try so hard to ignore behind the pretty stories. I could spend the rest of my life trying to be a prima ballerina, and it would not happen. I would fail at that for the rest of my life. FAILURE TEACHES US WHO WE ARE. Because even though I know I would fail forever at being a prima ballerina, I also know that I am not someone who should be a prima ballerina. It’s not who I am, it’s not what I want. Of course I would fail at it.
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I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.