Ser un líder no es obligar a los demás a que te hagan más fuerte, sino estar dispuesto a repartir tu fuerza para que los demás puedan mantenerse en pie por sí solos.
Recuerdo la primera vez que vi estrellas de verdad a través de la ventana de la escotilla. Entonces me parecieron hermosas, pero esa palabra ya no sirve para contener todo lo que siento ahora. Veo las...
People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control.
It's hard to think about all the bad when she reminds me of all that's good.
I am surrounded by death, inside and out, and all it does is remind me of how futile everything is, everything ever was.
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 anythin...
You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I'd know this was his room just from the smell.
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.
It takes Elder about 2.5 seconds to reach my room after I com him.What's wrong? he asks, skidding through the door.I laugh at the way his eyes search my room, looking for a dragon to slay for his dams...
I remember the first time I saw the stars. I thought they changed everything. I thought they changed me, like I'd become a different person just by seeing shining specks of light a million miles away....
I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms.This room feels very large, and I feel very small.
I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.
I feel the darkness inside me like a creature curled up in my chest, breathing smoke and fire. It is always there. It weighs on me. It's not contained by anything but my own skin. Sometimes it sleeps....
He treats books like treasured, rare things, and I guess they are, but my father used to dog-ear books and read them until they fell apart, and I like his method better
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.
God, did they ? A year made the world of difference! This was one more year I could be with Jason, one more year I could ! I signed up for three hundred years. . . not three hundred and one!
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. Be...
Eldest thinks power is control, that the best way to be a leader is to force everyone into obedience. Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all-- power is s...
All of them? I ask. I could almost understand her need to awaken her parents, but we don’t need to add nearly a hundred frozen people to the cacophony of voices around us.
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...