Top 100 Beth Revis Quotes
#1. I'll always come back to you, he tells me, pulling me close.
Always.
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#2. 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. [p.218]
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#3. 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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#4. There's a meaning behind blank pages, too.
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#5. I want her so much that it overrides everything else, every other thought in my head, every instinct, every restraint.
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#6. 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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#7. Amy looks up at me, her eyes melting jade.
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#8. She holds the brightly colored wires in her hand. "Well, that did the trick," she says, smiling.
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#9. Ella! the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. My heart stutters - not why? or how? - those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?
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#13. But death doesn't work like that. It doesn't care if someone loves you, doesn't want you to go. It just takes. It takes and it takes until eventually you have nothing left.
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#14. She stares back into me, as if we are both seeking a humanity that neither of us has.
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#15. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.
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#16. 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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#17. You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.
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#18. And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.
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#20. Like walking through water.
Like drowning.
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?
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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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#27. You never know all of a person; you only know them in a specific moment of time.
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#28. 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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#29. It's bad, being frozen, but it's better than waking up alone.
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#31. I've never seen the stars before.
And I never knew they were so beautiful.
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#32. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.
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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky.
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#38. (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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#39. 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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#40. And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. But how can I be disappointed in space?
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#45. If someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back
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#46. Maybe I'm reading too much into this. It's probably nothing. But I've had "nothing" for too long, and I'm ready for something. Anything.
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#47. It's hard to think about all the bad when she reminds me of all that's good.
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#48. That's all you need to know about Godspeed," he says. "Although you should also know this. I am Eldest."
Good for you, I think. Congrats on being old.
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#49. All the computers in the world are on a network. They're linked by our cuffs. But I'm a computer. Jack's a computer - Akilah - PA Young - all the cy-clones. We're all computers.
You know the great thing about computers?
They can be hacked.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that's already come true.
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#53. This is what I'm king of: a whirling mass of humans who either hate me or ignore me.
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#54. There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn't mean you have to succumb to them.
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#55. Remember that time I punched you in front of my father's grave? I ask in a sentimental voice.
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#56. I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms.
This room feels very large, and I feel very small.
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#58. Other species have interstellar travel," Jyn protested. "That didn't just come from humans. The humans never would have figured it out if not for - " Burta
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing.
And nothing can be nice.
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#62. Old people die. It's what they do. ~ Amy
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#63. Love without choice isn't love at all.
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#64. How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#69. I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.
This ... this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.
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#70. 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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#71. I'd been prepared for the goodbyes - as prepared as anyone could be, I guess - but I wasn't at all prepared for a hello.
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#72. I will never, never be the same.
I have seen stars.
Real stars.
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#73. 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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#74. I'd rather have answers than weapons.
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#75. 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.
[ ... ]
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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#76. If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive?
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#77. 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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#78. She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They're the loudest thing I've ever heard.
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#79. I have emotions, I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.
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#80. 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. ~Amy
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#81. He looks once in my eyes, a question still there. But we are beyond questions. We are in a plsce where there are only answers, and my answer to him is yes.
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#82. Should we wait?"
"Yes! YES. Wait - I'm coming. Just give me some time to thaw, and I will rise from the ice and live again. I will be your frozen phoenix. Just give me a chance!
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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. What is in our hearts is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness or silence.
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#89. Sorry? Sorry? Sorry isn't enough. Every. Single. Thing. I ever loved is beyond my reach now. Everything I ever wanted. Everything I ever was.
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#90. Failure makes the success worth it.
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#91. 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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#92. Science can make a heart beat," Jack says softly, each word falling on me like a caress. "But it can't make it race.
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#93. 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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#94. There is only him and me and this thing between us that I cannot name, not out loud, but that my heart knows is love.
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#95. 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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#96. She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.
My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire - no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
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#97. Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowed, and a shiny line of snot trickles from her nose to the top of her lip.
She wipes her face and with her arm, smearing tears and mucus. She never looked more BEAUTIFUL to me.
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#98. Even when you're silent, even when you block out all noise, you body is still a cacophony of life.
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#99. We all die someday. Maybe the only thing that makes that fact bearable is the idea that death is the only way we can return to the stars.
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#100. What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.
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