Beth Revis Quotes
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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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Like walking through water. Like drowning.
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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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Well, sometimes home is a person.
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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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What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.
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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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Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.
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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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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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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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You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.
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This is... mating, it's not love.
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Is almost a good enough reason for fear?
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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There's a meaning behind blank pages, too.
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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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I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.
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And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.
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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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I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars.
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I'd rather have answers than weapons.
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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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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.