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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I'd rather have answers than weapons.
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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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She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
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Is almost a good enough reason for fear?
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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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But how can I be disappointed in space?
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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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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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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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What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.
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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 without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.
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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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I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.
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Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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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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There's a meaning behind blank pages, too.
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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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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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You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.