Beth Revis > Quotes

“I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“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.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“(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.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“I can think of no better way to meet a girl than to see her through the eyes of the story she loves best.”
― Beth Revis, A World Without You

“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“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”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“Well, sometimes home is a person.”
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns

“It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“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.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“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.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“But...If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise.
Let it end with hope.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“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”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“Choice or no, my heart is his.”
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns

“Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“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.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn't determine whether you get it or not, that "no" might not be enough, that life isn't fair, that my parents can't save me, that maybe no one can.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“Will you stay with me?" I whisper.
"Always.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“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.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“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”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“Love without choice isn't love at all.”
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns

“...So, I do what any reasonable person would do when faced with a crying girl.
I get the frex out of there.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“What is in our hearts is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness or silence.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“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.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass....”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“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]”
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns

“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.”
― Beth Revis

“He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.”
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns

“I feel alone.
I don't mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket resting on my body, or the feathers of my pillow under my head, or the tight string of my sleep pants twisted up around my waist. I feel alone as if it were an actual thing, seeping throughout this whole level like mist blanketing a field, reaching into all the hidden corners of my room and finding nothing living but me. It's a cold sort of feeling, this.”
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns

“I am as silent as death.
Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not a glass coffin behind a morgue door. Lie down on your bed not made of ice. Stick your fingers in your ears. Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? 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 what if I am dead?”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe