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518cf9c	Amy looks up at me, her eyes melting jade.		Beth Revis
05dcc6b	I want her so much that it overrides everything else, every other thought in my head, every instinct, every restraint.		Beth Revis
e834ad0	I have no idea why she needs them. I just know that I'd face another plague to get them for her if I had to. Fortunately, it's a lot easier than that. - Elder		Beth Revis
4632028	I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.		Beth Revis
c254633	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.		Beth Revis
5e8bff1	If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?	sanity sanity-insanity visions	Beth Revis
08f0a48	I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.	across-the-universe elder amy-martin beth-revis	Beth Revis
f98cf00	Silence and stars.		Beth Revis
9527c9a	A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give him strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.		Beth Revis
9a5f8c9	The first cause of discord is difference. There is no religion on Godspeed. We all speak the same language. We're all monoethnic. And because we are not different, we don't fight. Remember the Crusades I taught you? The genocides? We will never have to worry about those types of horrific events on Godspeed.		Beth Revis
88bc418	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.		Beth Revis
ef42d32	I have the whole world now, but I don't have him.		Beth Revis
8a211b5	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
2b8b95b	If you do this, Nedra, if you choose necromancy... I cannot follow you into that darkness." "Oh, Grey," I said, shifting my bag onto my shoulder. "What do you know of darkness?"	darkness necromancy	Beth Revis
200de6d	I think his chutz is up, don't you?		Beth Revis
c2aee12	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.		Beth Revis
0b0f936	Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again. Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that's been amputated. [p.244]		Beth Revis
fc3919a	I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.	my-mind reverie stuck trapped	Beth Revis
45dd508	Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?		Beth Revis
a354ec1	I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here's the simple truth--if I hadn't taken the ship off Phydus, people like *** and ***** would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can't tell me their side. [p.88]		Beth Revis
088bfe6	The dark sky. A hundred million stars. More stars than I've ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don't show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again. Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound. The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky. And then we see the end. Godspeed's engin..	universe stars death aurora nebula elder atu-series shades-of-earth burst galaxy sky gone dead lost	Beth Revis
3602afe	When I get to my room, the first thing I do is punch the button that operates the blind over the window. The room dims. Good. I want darkness. ~Amy		Beth Revis
54c059e	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
00c6863	She holds the brightly colored wires in her hand. "Well, that did the trick," she says, smiling."		Beth Revis
70180c6	We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.	part-of-me take-away steal ourselves self remember	Beth Revis
bc637d7	All I had to do was die a little, and you get a new planet!" I expected her to laugh, or at least smile. I did not expect her to slap my arm. "You stupid idiot!" she says, smacking me again. "I don't want the new planet without you!" Her eyes round as she realizes what she just said. Anytime we'd gotten this close to talking about before, Amy has shied away from the topic. But now, instead of drawing away from me, she leans closer. Her ha..		Beth Revis
0805a6a	I will do anything to make her happy again, so I give her the stars.		Beth Revis
fcd1f6e	Frex!		Beth Revis
dd4b640	They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky.		Beth Revis
aebe98c	This is what I'm king of: a whirling mass of humans who either hate me or ignore me.		Beth Revis
b4082fe	What else can you tell me?" Dad stares at me. "What have you learned while you were awake?" 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..	time life colonel-martin shades-of-earth unfair nothing dad fragile chaos art save hard mess sad	Beth Revis
36a4ea3	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.	ella-shepard ironic saving dying	Beth Revis
d6fb66e	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.		Beth Revis
6c80591	I feel hollow inside, as if there's a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around myself.	hollow	Beth Revis
dfcbeb3	Asi de fragil es la vida de una generacion en una nave espacial: el peso de nuestra existencia se basa en un motor roto.		Beth Revis
30b772b	I guess when someone's gone from your life for a while, all you think about are the big things. The big regrets, the could-have, should-haves. Or the big moments, the memories that are going to be with you forever, those life-changing moments, like first kisses and first confessions and first trusts. And you think about the lasts too: the last kiss, the last words, the last moments.		Beth Revis
511e354	I didn't realise how important the sky was until I didn't have one	science-fiction-ya science-fiction-young-adult	Beth Revis
e97dda6	It Will be better to die quickly with only the taste of freedom on our lips than to live long lives pretending not to see the walls that imprison us.	centauri-earth shades-of-earth	Beth Revis
3987a82	Maybe I'm reading too much into this. It's probably nothing. But I've had "nothing" for too long, and I'm ready for . Anything."		Beth Revis
7b7a22a	I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms. This room feels very large, and I feel very small.		Beth Revis
f8d2b66	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
b6877ed	Of everyone on this ship, even the frozen bodies of my parents, Elder's the only one who handed me truth and waited for me to accept it.		Beth Revis
9dd74b1	Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.	wrong light claustrophobic unnatural metal walls broken images important sky sun shattered	Beth Revis
db8134e	Para mi, por siempre, no hay mas Nueva York. Pero, mi corazon susurra, hay un Elder.		Beth Revis

Amy looks up at me, her eyes melting jade.

Beth Revis

05dcc6b

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

Beth Revis

e834ad0

I have no idea why she needs them. I just know that I'd face another plague to get them for her if I had to. Fortunately, it's a lot easier than that. - Elder

Beth Revis

4632028

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

Beth Revis

c254633

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.

Beth Revis

5e8bff1

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

sanity sanity-insanity visions

Beth Revis

08f0a48

I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.

across-the-universe elder amy-martin beth-revis

Beth Revis

f98cf00

Silence and stars.

Beth Revis

9527c9a

A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give him strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

Beth Revis

9a5f8c9

The first cause of discord is difference. There is no religion on Godspeed. We all speak the same language. We're all monoethnic. And because we are not different, we don't fight. Remember the Crusades I taught you? The genocides? We will never have to worry about those types of horrific events on Godspeed.

Beth Revis

88bc418

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.

Beth Revis

ef42d32

I have the whole world now, but I don't have him.

Beth Revis

8a211b5

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

2b8b95b

If you do this, Nedra, if you choose necromancy... I cannot follow you into that darkness." "Oh, Grey," I said, shifting my bag onto my shoulder. "What do you know of darkness?"

darkness necromancy

Beth Revis

200de6d

I think his chutz is up, don't you?

Beth Revis

c2aee12

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.

Beth Revis

0b0f936

Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again. Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that's been amputated. [p.244]

Beth Revis

fc3919a

I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.

my-mind reverie stuck trapped

Beth Revis

45dd508

Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?

Beth Revis

a354ec1

I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here's the simple truth--if I hadn't taken the ship off Phydus, people like ***** and ******* would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can't tell me their side. [p.88]

Beth Revis

088bfe6

The dark sky. A hundred million stars. More stars than I've ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don't show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again. Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound. The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky. And then we see the end. Godspeed's engin..

universe stars death aurora nebula elder atu-series shades-of-earth burst galaxy sky gone dead lost

Beth Revis

3602afe

When I get to my room, the first thing I do is punch the button that operates the blind over the window. The room dims. Good. I want darkness. ~Amy

Beth Revis

54c059e

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

00c6863

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

Beth Revis

70180c6

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

part-of-me take-away steal ourselves self remember

Beth Revis

bc637d7

All I had to do was die a little, and you get a new planet!" I expected her to laugh, or at least smile. I did not expect her to slap my arm. "You stupid idiot!" she says, smacking me again. "I don't want the new planet without you!" Her eyes round as she realizes what she just said. Anytime we'd gotten this close to talking about before, Amy has shied away from the topic. But now, instead of drawing away from me, she leans closer. Her ha..

Beth Revis

0805a6a

I will do anything to make her happy again, so I give her the stars.

Beth Revis

fcd1f6e

Frex!

Beth Revis

dd4b640

They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky.

Beth Revis

aebe98c

This is what I'm king of: a whirling mass of humans who either hate me or ignore me.

Beth Revis

b4082fe

What else can you tell me?" Dad stares at me. "What have you learned while you were awake?" 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..

time life colonel-martin shades-of-earth unfair nothing dad fragile chaos art save hard mess sad

Beth Revis

36a4ea3

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.

ella-shepard ironic saving dying

Beth Revis

d6fb66e

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.

Beth Revis

6c80591

I feel hollow inside, as if there's a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around myself.

hollow

Beth Revis

dfcbeb3

Asi de fragil es la vida de una generacion en una nave espacial: el peso de nuestra existencia se basa en un motor roto.

Beth Revis

30b772b

I guess when someone's gone from your life for a while, all you think about are the big things. The big regrets, the could-have, should-haves. Or the big moments, the memories that are going to be with you forever, those life-changing moments, like first kisses and first confessions and first trusts. And you think about the lasts too: the last kiss, the last words, the last moments.

Beth Revis

511e354

I didn't realise how important the sky was until I didn't have one

science-fiction-ya science-fiction-young-adult

Beth Revis

e97dda6

It Will be better to die quickly with only the taste of freedom on our lips than to live long lives pretending not to see the walls that imprison us.

centauri-earth shades-of-earth

Beth Revis

3987a82

Maybe I'm reading too much into this. It's probably nothing. But I've had "nothing" for too long, and I'm ready for . Anything."

Beth Revis

7b7a22a

I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms. This room feels very large, and I feel very small.

Beth Revis

f8d2b66

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

b6877ed

Of everyone on this ship, even the frozen bodies of my parents, Elder's the only one who handed me truth and waited for me to accept it.

Beth Revis

9dd74b1

Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.

wrong light claustrophobic unnatural metal walls broken images important sky sun shattered

Beth Revis

db8134e

Para mi, por siempre, no hay mas Nueva York. Pero, mi corazon susurra, hay un Elder.

Beth Revis