Beth Revis Quotes
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What if eternity is nothing more than me, alone, in the 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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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 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 learned long ago that home is a word that applies to people, not places... Didn't matter to me where I was - it mattered who I was with.
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You can burn fear away after every nightmare you've ever had comes true.
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The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning.
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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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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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I’m not human. I’m better.
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I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.
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And it is everything I have longed for, and everything that breaks my heart.
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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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He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.
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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.
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I. Can't. Do this. I can't. It's too much. This-all of this-living- I can't. I just can't. To have given it all up and be left with nothing but this metal wall.
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I will do anything to make her happy again, so I give her the stars.
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For a moment, he looks back at me, and his farewell is in his smile. Then he turns to the stars. And he is gone.
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I bet when Eldest posed for his portrait, he was reveling in the one thing I can’t stand about life aboard the ship: the perfect evenness of everything.
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You could have valued our lives more than your secrets.