Beth Revis Quotes
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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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I can get closer.
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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 lean closer to him, so close I can smell his skin, and when I speak, I can see how the little hairs near his ear move with my breath. "I also want you to know that I won't kill you right away. But that you'll wish I had.
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The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.
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When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t cry.
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Remember that time I punched you in front of my father’s grave?” I ask in a sentimental voice.
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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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I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.
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I'll always come back to you.
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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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Is almost a good enough reason for fear?
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You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.
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And it is everything I have longed for, and everything that breaks my heart.
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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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I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.
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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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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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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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Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard.
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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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Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people.
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As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.