Beth Revis

“Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people.”

“I'm running as if the force of the wind whipping around my body will be enough to keep all the pieces of me from crumbling.”

“I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.”

“I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.”

“Frex!”

“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.”

“If someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back”

“You could have valued our lives more than your secrets.”

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

“Silence and stars.”

“If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive?”

“I can think of nothing but the stars. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars. They are all that I have ever dreamed of; they are nothing that I ever expected... I will never, never be the same. I have seen stars. Real stars.”

“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.”

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

“Im here and he’s not. That I’m alive and he’s…”

“I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.”

“She was a good person. She didn’t deserve to die.”“I don’t think it works that way.”

“What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.”

“She grips my elbow tighter, somehow finding the thinnest skin to dig her fingernails into. I want to pry her fingers from my arm, but when I look down at her, I can tell she’s using me as a lifeline, and I’m not going to be the one to let her drown.”

“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.”

“I'll always come back to you.”

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

“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.”

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

“It's hard to think about all the bad when she reminds me of all that's good.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Who are the real monsters?”

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

“As soon as the words slip past my lips, I wish I could grab them with my hands and crush them in my fists.But I can’t.The words are there.”

“Harley siempre ha sido así: piensa que la ignorancia es la mejor manera de protegerse. No entiende que, a menudo, lo que nos imaginamos es peor que la verdad”

“I will never, never be the same.I have seen stars.Real stars.”

“I realize the simple truth is that 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 so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”

“I stare at the stars... And even though there are so many and they look so close together, I know they are light years apart. 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.This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you.”

“¿Qué pasaría si estuviese en la Tierra y no en esta dichosa nave? Si hubiese conocido a Elder en el instituto, en un bar o en una cita a ciegas; si hubiese podido elegir entre Elder y cualquier otro chico del mundo... ¿lo querría? ¿Me querría él a mi? El amor sin posibilidad de elección no es amor.”

“I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe.silenceand starsA million suns stretch out beyond me, their light piercing the darkness.”

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

“When I finally get out of bed, the only thing I want to do is go straight to Amy and demand her forgiveness. Maybe we can at least go back to what we had before our fight, even if all we had was an awkward friendship punctuated by significant silences.”

“I am as silent as death. Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not a glass coffin behind a morgue door. Lie down on your bed not made of ice. Stick your fingers in your ears. Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. Because what if I am dead? How can someone without a beating heart, without breathing lungs live like I do? I must be dead. And this is my greatest fear: After 301 years, when they pull my glass coffin from this morgue, and they let my body thaw like chicken meat on the kitchen counter, I will be just like I am now. I will spend all of eternity trapped in my dead body. There is nothing beyond this. I will be locked within myself forever. And I want to scream. I want to throw open my eyes wake up and not be alone with myself anymore, but I can't. I can't.”

“Amy looks up at me, her eyes melting jade.”

“Even though I know the rain is fake, it feels the same as real rain, and I desperately need that.”

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

“I've never seen the stars before.And I never knew they were so beautiful.”

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

“But why run? Run where? What's the point?Seems silly, running.May as well stand here.And wait.The world seems slow.”