Top 100 Beth Revis Quotes
#1. When I look at the fields, all I can see is how fake they are, how poor an imitation they are of the pictures of Sol-Earth fields.
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And that's why I'll never be as good an Eldest as he is.
Because I like a little chaos.
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#2. I'd rather have answers than weapons.
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#3. I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.
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#4. I will never, never be the same.
I have seen stars.
Real stars.
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#5. As soon as the words slip past my lips, I wish I could grab them with my hands and crush them in my fists.
But I can't.
The words are there.
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#8. It's all in my mind.
I'm in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy.
"You need to wake up, Ella."
The words are a command I cannot obey.
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#9. I open my mouth. I want o say: I'm breaking, and i need someone to hold me together.
But no sound comes out.
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#10. This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you. ~ Amy
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#11. There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn't mean you have to succumb to them.
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#12. 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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#13. What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.
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#14. Even when you're silent, even when you block out all noise, you body is still a cacophony of life.
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#15. A splatter of rain on my skin, but its bright and sunny under the blue sky and Jason's there, and we almost kiss but everything changes and were at that party where we met.
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#16. 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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#17. I reached inside her and pulled out the deepest memories in her body, the memories that words can't describe, the memories that are as much a piece of her as her arms and legs. Those are the ones she's filled with now.
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#18. If we're not there to protect them
that's why people being murdered! Because we aren't protecting them!'
'No.' My voice is calm and sure. 'People are getting murdered because there's a murderer.
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#19. The silence in our house now is born from the need for intense concentration, as we all carefully step around the truth we wish we didn't know, the person we can't help that Bo became, the future we're all afraid is collapsing around us, falling as silent and cold and crushing as snow.
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#20. I'm running as if the force of the wind whipping around my body will be enough to keep all the pieces of me from crumbling.
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#21. But i don't care. Because we can say them or not; it doesn't matter. What is in our heats is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness and silence.
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#22. When I finally get out of bed, the only thing I want to do is go straight to Amy and demand her forgiveness. Maybe we can at least go back to what we had before our fight, even if all we had was an awkward friendship punctuated by significant silences.
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#23. I have emotions, I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.
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#25. Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again.
Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that's been amputated. [p.244]
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#26. Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?
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#27. I want to take her into my arms and hold her tight. But at the same time, I know that is the exact opposite of what she wants. She wants to be free, and all I want is to hold her tight against me. ~ Elder
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#28. Like walking through water.
Like drowning.
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#29. And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.
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#30. 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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#31. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.
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#32. She stares back into me, as if we are both seeking a humanity that neither of us has.
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#33. So, I do what any reasonable person would do when faced with a crying girl.
I get the frex out of there.
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#34. She holds the brightly colored wires in her hand. "Well, that did the trick," she says, smiling.
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#35. Doc begs me for the wires to fix the pump.
We should at least keep putting the hormones in the water," he insists, "so that they don't start mating with relatives."
"Most people don't want to commit incest," I say dryly.
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#36. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.
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#37. Of everyone on this ship, even the frozen bodies of my parents, Elder's the only one who handed me truth and waited for me to accept it.
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#38. I'll always come back to you, he tells me, pulling me close.
Always.
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#39. 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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#40. If someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back
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#41. But how can I be disappointed in space?
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#42. 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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#43. This ship is built on secrets; it runs on secrets", he says, tiny droplets of spittle flying from his mouth to my face. "And if you keep asking about them, you'll see how far I'm willing to go to keep mine." ~ Eldest
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#44. But why run? Run where? What's the point?
Seems silly, running.
May as well stand here.
And wait.
The world seems slow.
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#45. You never know all of a person; you only know them in a specific moment of time.
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#46. 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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#47. (D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.
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#48. They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky.
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#49. 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.
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#50. Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars never will, but i'd rather have Harley's colors.
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#51. I've never seen the stars before.
And I never knew they were so beautiful.
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#52. It's bad, being frozen, but it's better than waking up alone.
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#53. If it's a matter of dying here or dying there, I think I'd like to at least see the world first.
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#54. I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.
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#55. Orion says it's human nature." It's not, I think.
"It's not," Victria says.
I look at her, surprised.
"If it was, I'd be like them," she says, nodding at the couple by the steps. Well, frex. She's right. "But I'm not.
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#56. 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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#57. People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We're all spiraling out of control.
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#58. But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits!
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#59. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
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#60. I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.
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#62. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars.
A million suns.
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#63. 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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#64. I remember the first time I saw the stars. I thought they changed everything. I thought they changed me, like I'd become a different person just by seeing shining specks of light a million miles away. Now when I stare at them, I feel nothing. I don't believe in them anymore.
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#65. It sparkles in the dim light of the room, and when he shakes it out, dust mingles with glitter.
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#66. Even though I know the rain is fake, it feels the same as real rain, and I desperately need that.
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#67. He treats books like treasured, rare things, and I guess they are, but my father used to dog-ear books and read them until they fell apart, and I like his method better
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#68. What if eternity is nothing more than me, alone, in the darkness?
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#69. It takes Elder about 2.5 seconds to reach my room after I com him.
"What's wrong?" he asks, skidding through the door.
I laugh at the way his eyes search my room, looking for a dragon to slay for his damsel in distress.
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#70. Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. Because
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#71. But ... If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise.
Let it end with hope.
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#72. She was a good person. She didn't deserve to die."
"I don't think it works that way.
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#73. Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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#74. It's not selfish to be yourself and pursue your dreams.
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#75. A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.
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#76. When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn't mean you didn't cry.
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#77. 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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#78. Eldest taught me about ancient religions that worshiped the sun. I never understood why- it's just a ball of light and heat. But if the sun of Sol-Earth swirls in colors and lights like that girl's hair, well, I can see why the ancients would worship that.
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#79. I have the whole world now, but I don't have him.
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#80. And there is nothing between us but rain.
Then there is nothing between us at all.
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#81. I choose this," I say, my voice ragged with want. "I choose you.
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#82. I am surrounded by death, inside and out, and all it does is remind me of how futile everything is, everything ever was.
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#83. The freedom of our people is more important!" Julie says fiercely. "We will never stop fighting, never stop working for what is right!"
Jack just smiles at her. "That's a nice lie to believe," he says.
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#84. I will do anything to make her happy again, so I give her the stars.
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#85. But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.
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#86. Will you stay with me?" I whisper.
"Always.
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#87. So, no. I'm talking to an oversized potholder.
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#88. 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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#89. I'm going to find a way to fix you"
"I'm not broken", Amy says in a voice as empty as her eyes.
I lead her down the hall, deposit her in her chamber, and tell her not lo leave. I have no doubt she will follow my order.
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#90. I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This - this - this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.
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#91. The sea is a dangerous place because it makes you believe in forever.
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#92. I could tell them about the different kinds of rain, pouring rain that's perfect for when you want to stay inside and watch a movie or read, or piercing rain that feels like needles on your skin, or soft summer rain that makes your first kiss with your first love all the sweeter. ~ Amy
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#95. He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.
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#96. So you're sticking with me, and I'm sticking with you.
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#97. Wannagogardenwime?" I ask all in one breath. My eyes grow wide. What came over me? Why would I blurt that out like that? ~Elder
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#98. It's Elder who's my safe place. Elder's my home.
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#99. 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 others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
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#100. 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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