Beth Revis Quotes
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This is what I'm king of: a whirling mass of humans who either hate me or ignore me.
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I think death is easier than guilt sometimes.
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Of everyone on this ship, even the frozen bodies of my parents, Elder's the only one who handed me truth and waited for me to accept it.
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This journey... it's long. He says this as if he's felt all 250 years of travel.
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I lean closer to him, so close I can smell his skin, and when I speak, I can see how the little hairs near his ear move with my breath. "I also want you to know that I won't kill you right away. But that you'll wish I had.
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When I finally get out of bed, the only thing I want to do is go straight to Amy and demand her forgiveness. Maybe we can at least go back to what we had before our fight, even if all we had was an awkward friendship punctuated by significant silences.
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Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others.
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A good book will give you answers to questions you didn't know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.
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And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars. A million suns. Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home. But all of them are out of reach.
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I think his chutz is up, don't you?
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Why wouldn’t it be the government? It’s not like we have a perfectly operational terrorist group right here to do it.
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I can think of nothing but the stars. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars. They are all that I have ever dreamed of; they are nothing that I ever expected... I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars.
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But, really, grief left a hole in you, and while you healed around the hole, you never didn't have it. A piece of you was gone. You couldn't heal something that wasn't there.
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Well, sometimes home is a person.
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I run and run and run. Past the hospital, through the garden, past a pond. And to the cold metal wall. I stop, gulping at the air, my heart racing in my ears. I reach up with one hand and touch the wall. My fingers curl into a fist, but it falls weakly to my side. And that's when I realize there is no where to run. 'But', my heart whispers, 'there is Elder.
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If it's a matter of dying here or dying there, I think I'd like to at least see the world first.
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People will survive anything for their children.
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I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms. This room feels very large, and I feel very small.
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Like walking through water. Like drowning.
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I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.
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And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep. But there is no echo of it in my mind.
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Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again. Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that’s been amputated.
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I'd rather have answers than weapons.
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I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.