Beth Revis Quotes
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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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It's not knowing that's killing me. Not knowing if there's a chance that something can change, not knowing if there's hope at all.
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Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.
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I think death is easier than guilt sometimes.
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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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We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.
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When I get to my room, the first thing I do is punch the button that operates the blind over the window. The room dims. Good. I want darkness.
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Like walking through water. Like drowning.
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That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into a book-shaped vessel.
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Is almost a good enough reason for fear?
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And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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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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Eldest thinks power is control, that the best way to be a leader is to force everyone into obedience. 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. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to other so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. This is what I've been looking for since the first day I was told that I was born to lead this ship. Leading Godspeed has nothing to do with being better than everyone else, with commanding and forcing and manipulating. Eldest isn't a leader. He's a tyrant. A leader doesn't make pawns-he makes people.
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Maybe being alone in the sea, with its unexplored depths, its clawing-finger waves, really is safer compared to the land, where there are people and malice and death.
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A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give him strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
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But death doesn't work like that. It doesn't care if someone loves you, doesn't want you to go. It just takes. It takes and it takes until eventually you have nothing left.
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You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.
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We’re so close we could touch. All it would take is for me to reach out my hand. But neither of us makes a move.
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I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.
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This is... mating, it's not love.
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God, did they know? A year made the world of difference! This was one more year I could be with Jason, one more year I could live! I signed up for three hundred years. . . not three hundred and one!
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There's a meaning behind blank pages, too.
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I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars.