Beth Revis Quotes
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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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We're the ones who arent normal. People are supposed to be like that: obedient, calm, working together. It's us-who can't focus, who can't work together, who can't do the Feeder or Shipper jobs-we're the ones who aren't normal. We're the ones who have to take the mental meds just so we don't go loons.
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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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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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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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Is almost a good enough reason for fear?
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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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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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Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.
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But how can I be disappointed in space?
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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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You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.
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I can get closer.
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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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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.
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The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood...Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different and then feeling sick with guilt because you know what the cost of "different" would be...There's a difference between having no siblings and having a broken one.
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Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
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Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.
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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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Failure makes the success worth it.
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This is... mating, it's not love.
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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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And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.