“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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“but now came another old theme: self-blame. She was selfish, crabbed, drily ambitious. Pursuing her own ends, pretending to herself that her career was not in essence self-gratification, denying an existence to two or three warm and talented individuals. Had her children lived, it would have been shocking to think they might not have. And so here was her punishment, to face this disaster alone, without sensible grown-up children, concerned and phoning, downing tools and rallying round for urgent kitchen-table conferences, talking sense to their stupid father, bringing him back. But would she take him in?”
― Ian McEwan, quote from The Children Act
“Interesting. And does Abu have anything else to say?" she asked, leaning closer.
Cinnamon. Her breath smelled of cinnamon. He could even smell her skin at that distance. Though he wasn't one normally prone to poetry, he could only think of a fresh desert breeze that carried a whisper of cypress and sandalwood.
"He wishes there was something he could do to help..." That at least was honest. He wasn't exactly sure how kissing would help her. He just knew it was going to happen or he was going to die.
"Tell him I just might take him up on that," the girl said, closing her eyes and tilting her head.
Aladdin put his arm around her back and prepared for the best thing that had ever happened to him.”
― Liz Braswell, quote from A Whole New World
“As a figment of my imagination, I demand you stop insulting me. - Aileana”
― Elizabeth May, quote from The Vanishing Throne
“Dia tidak pernah takut pada laba-laba, sepeda yang kotor, atau jemarinya terkena panas oven--dan dia sering mengalami semua itu. Namun, berjalan ke ruangan yang sama dengan pria yang ditaksirnya? Itu menakutkan.”
― quote from Bliss
“Along The Sun-Drenched Roadside
Along the sun-drenched roadside, from the great
hollow half-treetrunk, which for generations
has been a trough, renewing in itself
an inch or two of rain, I satisfy
my thirst: taking the water's pristine coolness
into my whole body through my wrists.
Drinking would be too powerful, too clear;
but this unhurried gesture of restraint
fills my whole consciousness with shining water.
Thus, if you came, I could be satisfied
to let my hand rest lightly, for a moment,
lightly, upon your shoulder or your breast.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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