175 Quotes by Beth Revis

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?

A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.

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.

There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.

My heart stutters—not why? or how?—those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?

She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.

The freedom of our people is more important!” Julie says fiercely. “We will never stop fighting, never stop working for what is right!”Jack just smiles at her. “That’s a nice lie to believe,” he says.

I try not to look obvious as I wait for Mom’s answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other.“Oh, of course!” Mom exclaims, her voice trilling with laughter. “How could I have forgotten?”And now I know. Really know. This woman is not my mother. I don’t know who she is, but I know absolutely who she is not.

I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it’s like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that’s me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am—maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am—is right here.