Beth Revis Quotes
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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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More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes, it must pass, but I have no more assurance of moving through time than I have that I am moving through space. In a way, I’m glad: this means perhaps 300 years and 364 days have passed, and tomorrow I will wake up. Sometimes after a cross-country meet or a long day at school, I’d fall into bed with all my clothes on and be out before I knew it. When I’d finally open my eyes, it would feel like I’d just shut them for a minute, but really, the whole rest of the day and half the night was gone. But. There were other times when I’d collapse onto my mattress, shut my eyes and dream, and it felt like I’d lived a whole lifetime in that dream, but when I woke up, it had only been a few minutes. What if only a year has gone by? What if we haven’t even left yet? That is my greatest fear.
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But...If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise. Let it end with hope.
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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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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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There is only him and me and this thing between us that I cannot name, not out loud, but that my heart knows is love.
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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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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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Family is never really gone.
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I think his chutz is up, don't you?
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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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Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.
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I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.
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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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People will survive anything for their children.
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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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But how can I be disappointed in space?
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And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.
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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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What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.
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She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
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A splatter of rain on my skin, but its bright and sunny under the blue sky and Jason's there, and we almost kiss but everything changes and were at that party where we met.
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Well, sometimes home is a person.
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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.