Across the Universe takes place entirely on a generation spaceship, and, aside from a brief introduction, is not on Earth at all. But obviously, something had to have been happening on Earth. Somethin...
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...
When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t cry.
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 im...
I’ve made her relive, over and over, the last few days, I say softly, watching Ms. White’s body. I’ve had to fill in the blanks with my own feelings and experiences. She’s spiraling around those last...
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.
The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood...Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different an...
We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.
And then I realize: this isn’t dirty water falling from the sky.It is—literally—blood.I look up, and a droplet of blood splashes directly into my eye. I curse, rubbing my face, trying to get the blood...
We keep sending colonies up into space, Akilah says, and we don’t even know what’s at the bottom of the sea.Yeah, we do, I counter. Fish and stuff.Akilah laughs. We’ve barely explored the sea. There a...
Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars never will, but i'd rather have Harley's colors.
She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire—no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
Or… maybe I’m not going crazy. Maybe I’m some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and I’m just breaking down.I’m not sure which way is worse.Dad laughs. You’re not in your right mind, dear, he says. N...
Who are the real monsters?
It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy.You need to wake up, Ella.The words are a command I cannot obey.
I'll always come back to you, he tells me, pulling me close.Always.--Beth Revis (Shades of Earth pg. 441)
I wish you were here, I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination.I hear his voice again, so real that I’m worried I’m about to fall into another hallucination. Mayb...
I just had to hope you'd find me, he says.Then he can't talk any more because I'm kissing him, and I don't think I'll ever stop. But I do. I lean back and stare into his eyes, and it's not until I see...
She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
I will never, be the same.I have seen stars. stars.
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