Top 100 Beth Revis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

— Beth Revis

2. “I’ll always come back to you.”

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3. “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

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4. “I quit thinking.”

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5. “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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6. “Love without choice isn’t love at all.”

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7. “He’s the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.”

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8. “Well, sometimes home is a person.”

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9. “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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10. “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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11. “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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12. “What is in our hearts is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness or silence.”

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13. “I feel the darkness inside me like a creature curled up in my chest, breathing smoke and fire. It is always there. It weighs on me. It’s not contained by anything but my own skin. Sometimes it sleeps. Sometimes it doesn’t.”

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14. “Perhaps the only thing worse than fear is apathy. Fear makes us do horrible things to people. Apathy makes us allow horrible things to happen to them.”

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15. “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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16. “But there’s a difference, isn’t there? Between saying goodbye and death.”

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17. “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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18. “Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.”

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19. “Everyone has wounds; everyone pretends they don’t.”

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20. “And there is nothing between us but rain. Then there is nothing between us at all.”

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21. “The simple truth is that power isn’t control at all – power is strength, and giving that strength to others.”

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22. “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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23. “I had nothing to prove and everything to lose. But it didn’t take love to sacrifice something of yourself for someone else. It just took desperation.”

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24. “I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.”

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25. “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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26. “A leader doesn’t make pawns – he makes people.”

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27. “The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood... Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different and then feeling sick with guilt because you know what the cost of “different” would be... There’s a difference between having no siblings and having a broken one.”

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28. “The sea is a dangerous place because it makes you believe in forever.”

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29. “What you really want to know,” I say, “is how to make sure we all don’t just rip each other apart, right?” The fight earlier is way too fresh in our minds. We are a powder keg; just a spark will blow us apart.”

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30. “I guess when someone’s gone from your life for a while, all you think about are the big things. The big regrets, the could-have, should-haves. Or the big moments, the memories that are going to be with you forever, those life-changing moments, like first kisses and first confessions and first trusts. And you think about the lasts too: the last kiss, the last words, the last moments.”

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31. “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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32. “I feel hollow inside, as if there’s a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around myself.”

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33. “It’s not selfish to be yourself and pursue your dreams.”

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34. “And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.”

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35. “It’s bad, being frozen, but it’s better than waking up alone.”

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36. “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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37. “If you love someone – deeply, in as true a way as you can – you will get hurt. People leave us and love falls apart, and when it does, it hurts. It should hurt. How can you not hurt when what you love is gone?”

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38. “There’s a meaning behind blank pages, too.”

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39. “You are not one person. You are a different person in each moment in time. Your name means nothing. Go see a person with the same name in a different time, and it’s someone else entirely.”

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40. “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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41. “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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42. “I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn’t have one.”

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43. “I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don’t mind leaving nearly everything behind.”

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44. “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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45. “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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46. “My heart stutters – not why? or how? – those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?”

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47. “We’re the ones who arent normal. People are supposed to be like that: obedient, calm, working together. It’s us-who can’t focus, who can’t work together, who can’t do the Feeder or Shipper jobs-we’re the ones who aren’t normal. We’re the ones who have to take the mental meds just so we don’t go loons.”

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48. “If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?”

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49. “You never know all of a person; you only know them in a specific moment of time.”

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50. “You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.”

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