What you really want to know, I say, is how to make sure we all don’t just rip each other apart, right? The fight earlier is way too fresh in our minds. We are a powder keg; just a spark will blow us...
I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This—this—this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.
And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.
I’ve heard that when you’re in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you’re hyper-aware of what’...
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...
I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.
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...
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 c...
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...
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.
I'll always come back to you, he tells me, pulling me close.Always.--Beth Revis (Shades of Earth pg. 441)
But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.