Beth Revis Quotes
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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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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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But how can I be disappointed in space?
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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 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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Is almost a good enough reason for fear?
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Well, sometimes home is a person.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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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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I just wish I could see myself in me.
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Failure makes the success worth it.
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Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
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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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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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Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.
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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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And there is nothing between us but rain. Then there is nothing between us at all.