“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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“D. A., and Kahneman, D. (1998). Does living in California make people happy?: A focusing illusion in judgments of life satisfaction. Psychological Science, 9: 340–46.”
― Sonja Lyubomirsky, quote from The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
“Just because we live in a world of chaos and madness doesn’t mean we have to subscribe to that sort of behavior.”
― J.M. Northup, quote from Fears of Darkness
“I love you in my bed at night, and when I wake up, and I love hearing you sing, and I love telling you to stop bothering me, and I love walking to Van’s noodle house with you, and I love you – I love you, so promise you’ll be like the ocean and come back to me, even when they pull you away. Always come back to me.”
― quote from Twist and Shout
“Dear Woman Who Gave Me Life:
The callous vexations and perturbations of this night have subsequently resolved
themselves to a state which precipitates me, Arturo Bandini, into a
brobdingnagian and gargantuan decision. I inform you of this in no uncertain
terms. Ergo, I now leave you and your ever charming daughter (my beloved sister
Mona) and seek the fabulous usufructs of my incipient career in profound
solitude. Which is to say, tonight I depart for the metropolis to the east — our
own Los Angeles, the city of angels. I entrust you to the benign generosity of your brother, Frank Scarpi, who is, as the phrase has it, a good family man
(sic!). I am penniless but I urge you in no uncertain terms to cease your
cerebral anxiety about my destiny, for truly it lies in the palm of the immortal gods. I have made the lamentable discovery over a period of years that living
with you and Mona is deleterious to the high and magnanimous purpose of Art, and I repeat to you in no uncertain terms that I am an artist, a creator beyond question. And, per se, the fumbling fulminations of cerebration and intellect find little fruition in the debauched, distorted hegemony that we poor mortals, for lack of a better and more concise terminology, call home. In no uncertain
terms I give you my love and blessing, and I swear to my sincerity, when I say
in no uncertain terms that I not only forgive you for what has ruefully
transpired this night, but for all other nights. Ergo, I assume in no uncertain terms that you will reciprocate in kindred fashion. May I say in conclusion that I have much to thank you for, O woman who breathed the breath of life into my
brain of destiny? Aye, it is, it is.
Signed.
Arturo Gabriel Bandini.
Suitcase in hand, I walked down to the depot. There was a ten-minute wait for
the midnight train for Los Angeles. I sat down and began to think about the new novel.”
― John Fante, quote from The Road to Los Angeles
“I love you, Aiden.” Never in my life will I forget the way he looks in this moment. The surprise in his eyes. The emotions crossing his face. His lips forming a smile. His big hands holding my cheeks firmly in place as he looks into my eyes and says, “I love you”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Get Me
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