Beth Revis Quotes
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I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best.
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People will survive anything for their children.
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I can't be the kind of leader you want me to. I will never, ever be the kind of leader you want me to be. And I will be better because of it.
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I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.
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You can burn fear away after every nightmare you've ever had comes true.
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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 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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I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.
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It Will be better to die quickly with only the taste of freedom on our lips than to live long lives pretending not to see the walls that imprison us.
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I saw Death itself. It was a feral thing, made of smoke and shadow. It was hollow and empty. And hungry. Starving.
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Is almost a good enough reason for fear?
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I can get closer.
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You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.
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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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It wasn't that he called me a freak. It was the way he said it. Like he really meant it. Like he believed it.
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Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
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I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it’s like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that’s me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am—maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am—is right here.
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And it is everything I have longed for, and everything that breaks my heart.
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But Harley has always been this way, for as long as I've known him: he thinks ignorance is the best way to protect someone, and he doesn't understand that what we imagine is often worse than the truth.
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I'll always come back to you.
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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There’s a war going on, that much is clear. And I’m no longer sure I’m on the right side.
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Failure makes the success worth it.
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Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people.