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What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.
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Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.
Beth Revis
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Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
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I have the whole world now, but I don't have him.
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You gonna fight for something, you fight for something that you're willing to die for.
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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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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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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.
Beth Revis
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This ship is built on secrets; it runs on secrets.
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And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.
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You could have valued our lives more than your secrets.
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What if eternity is nothing more than me, alone, in the darkness?
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This is the secret of the stars. In the end, we are alone no matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you. Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.
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Sometimes home is a person.
Beth Revis
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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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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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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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There's a meaning behind blank pages, too.
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I’m not human. I’m better.
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And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars. A million suns. Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home. But all of them are out of reach.
Beth Revis