Beth Revis Quotes
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A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.
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I reached inside her and pulled out the deepest memories in her body, the memories that words can’t describe, the memories that are as much a piece of her as her arms and legs. Those are the ones she’s filled with now.
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But sometimes I look at Phoebe and I think about how she had a bird inside her heart. On the outside, she’s just like everyone else, but I like to think that maybe she carries within her something magical and free.
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She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way. My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire—no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
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I am surrounded by death, inside and out, and all it does is remind me of how futile everything is, everything ever was.
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So you’re sticking with me, and I’m sticking with you.
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But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.
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You are not one person. You are a different person in each moment in time. Your name means nothing. Go see a person with the same name in a different time, and it’s someone else entirely.
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Amy looks up at me, her eyes melting jade.
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You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I'd know this was his room just from the smell.
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Because if I break, they'll break too. It's a responsibility I'd never really felt before, or at least I never thought about enough to name. But, Bo's actions just cement my place in my family. He can walk away from the dinner table. I can't.
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Sometimes home is a person.
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It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.
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It's always in the rain...
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I'm running as if the force of the wind whipping around my body will be enough to keep all the pieces of me from crumbling.
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I feel hollow inside, as if there’s a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around myself.
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Perhaps the only thing worse than fear is apathy. Fear makes us do horrible things to people. Apathy makes us allow horrible things to happen to them.
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Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
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If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive?
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For the past three months, the walls of Goodspeed forced us close together. Now I´m wondering if they were the only things that kept Amy near me.
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Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between human and not, the means by which we learn. And while people use words to teach, to express art, to proclaim truths, at the most basic level, people use words to simply say: I am here.
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You never know all of a person; you only know them in a specific moment of time.
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Ella!" the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.
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We can fight, and we can disagree, but I'm never going to let you walk away from me thinking I don't love you.