“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, quote from Shades of Earth
“What is in our hearts is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness or silence.”
― Beth Revis, quote from 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, quote from Shades of Earth
“But there's a difference, isn't there? Between saying goodbye and death.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“I'll always come back to you.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“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.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“He blinks. Touches the side of my face, near my eyes. My eyes that are blue now, not green. With oval irises.
"I'm still me," I say, because my greatest fear now is that he doesn't want a hybrid Amy.
He cocks an eyebrow. "You think I care if your eyes are blue or green? I just care about you." His hand slips down my arm, and he wraps his pinky finger around mine.
"You came back to me," I say, my voice breaking over unshead tears of joy.
"I'll always come back to you," he tells me pulling me close.
Always.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“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.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“It's hard to think about all the bad when she reminds me of all that's good.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“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.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“I choose this," I say, my voice ragged with want. "I choose you.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“We fall into each other. All the other voices in my head--the fear, the doubt, the worry--are drowned out. I die at the end of each kiss and am brought gasping back to life at the beginning of the next. I close my eyes and the entire world fades away.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“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, quote from Shades of Earth
“We can fight, and we can disagree, but I'm never going to let you walk away from me thinking I don't love you.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“If someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“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.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“Im here and he’s not. That I’m alive and he’s…”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“She was a good person. She didn’t deserve to die.”
“I don’t think it works that way.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“You could have valued our lives more than your secrets.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“For the past three months, the walls of Goodspeed forced us close together. Now I´m wondering if they were the only things that kept Amy near me.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“I have the whole world now, but I don't have him.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
“They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky.”
― Beth Revis, quote from Shades of Earth
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“I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston, quote from The Woman Warrior
“The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever.”
― Keith Donohue, quote from The Stolen Child
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.’ —George Orwell”
― Conn Iggulden, quote from Bones of the Hills
“You were just a beautiful woman. Now you're my beautiful woman. What you got under your clothes is for me. No one else. They don't look. They don't touch. That's the deal. Yeah?"
I stared at him, speechless, which was a good thing because if I had words, I would have said them so loudly the neighbors would hear.
"Now," he went on, either not feeling or not caring about the badder than bad vibes emanating from me directly toward him, "go put on a tank."
That’s when I found my words.
"Maybe I should go put on my ragged white dress and stone necklace and you can put on your leopard skin tunic and we can pedal in our stone car to the roadhouse before you go bowling with Barney and I go shopping with Betty, Fred.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Regret
“I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.”
― Junot Díaz, quote from This Is How You Lose Her
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