Top 100 Beth Revis Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “What matters right now is this: we’re each of us standing here, together, alive, together.”

— Beth Revis

52. “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.”

— Beth Revis

53. “I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.”

— Beth Revis

54. “What if eternity is nothing more than me, alone, in the darkness?”

— Beth Revis

55. “But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.”

— Beth Revis

56. “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.”

— Beth Revis

57. “We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.”

— Beth Revis

58. “Choice or no, my heart is his.”

— Beth Revis

59. “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.”

— Beth Revis

60. “When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t cry.”

— Beth Revis

61. “Family is never really gone.”

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62. “A good book will give you answers to questions you didn’t know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.”

— Beth Revis

63. “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.”

— Beth Revis

64. “But Harley has always been this way, for as long as I’ve known him: he thinks ignorance is the best way to protect someone, and he doesn’t understand that what we imagine is often worse than the truth.”

— Beth Revis

65. “I want her so much that it overrides everything else, every other thought in my head, every instinct, every restraint.”

— Beth Revis

66. “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.”

— Beth Revis

67. “And it is everything I have longed for, and everything that breaks my heart.”

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68. “Science can make a heart beat,” Jack says softly, each word falling on me like a caress. “But it can’t make it race.”

— Beth Revis

69. “I choose this,” I say, my voice ragged with want. “I choose you.”

— Beth Revis

70. “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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71. “This is what I’m king of: a whirling mass of humans who either hate me or ignore me.”

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72. “Even when you’re silent, even when you block out all noise, you body is still a cacophony of life.”

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73. “Failure makes the success worth it.”

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74. “Don’t you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.”

— Beth Revis

75. “You gonna fight for something, you fight for something that you’re willing to die for.”

— Beth Revis

76. “It’s always in the rain...”

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77. “I have emotions,” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.”

— Beth Revis

78. “There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.”

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79. “Because if I break, they’ll break too. It’s a responsibility I’d never really felt before, or at least I never thought about enough to name. But, Bo’s actions just cement my place in my family. He can walk away from the dinner table. I can’t.”

— Beth Revis

80. “She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.”

— Beth Revis

81. “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.”

— Beth Revis

82. “It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that’s already come true.”

— Beth Revis

83. “She stares back into me, as if we are both seeking a humanity that neither of us has.”

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84. “I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it’s like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that’s me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am – maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am – is right here.”

— Beth Revis

85. “I can see, for just a moment, his beating heart in his ribcage, and then that, too, withers and dies, the useless, blackened lump tapping against his ribs before plopping out of his body.”

— Beth Revis

86. “We’re so close we could touch. All it would take is for me to reach out my hand. But neither of us makes a move.”

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87. “Besides,” he says, “every hero I know is soaked in blood.”

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88. “And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.”

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89. “The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.”

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90. “You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I’d know this was his room just from the smell.”

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91. “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

92. “If it’s a matter of dying here or dying there, I think I’d like to at least see the world first.”

— Beth Revis

93. “All of them?” I ask. I could almost understand her need to awaken her parents, but we don’t need to add nearly a hundred frozen people to the cacophony of voices around us.”

— Beth Revis

94. “She holds the brightly colored wires in her hand. “Well, that did the trick,” she says, smiling.”

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95. “This journey... it’s long”. He says this as if he’s felt all 250 years of travel.”

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96. “Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.”

— Beth Revis

97. “Her eyes met his, and her smile was brighter than any star. And it was just for him.”

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98. “Art was a form of rebellion.”

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99. “All it took was a few years and the Skywalker twins to make him realize he could ask for help.”

— Beth Revis

100. “I think death is easier than guilt sometimes.”

— Beth Revis