We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away...
BETH REVIS Choice or no, my heart is his.
BETH REVIS More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It mu...
BETH REVIS Well, sometimes home is a person.
BETH REVIS Sometimes home is a person.
BETH REVIS (D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're n...
BETH REVIS I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never f...
BETH REVIS I feel hollow inside, as if there’s a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around m...
BETH REVIS This is what I'm king of: a whirling mass of humans who either hate me or ignore me.
BETH REVIS Frex!
BETH REVIS All I had to do was die a little, and you get a new planet!"
I expected her to laugh, or at lea...
BETH REVIS I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here’s the simple tru...
BETH REVIS Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?
BETH REVIS As soon as the words slip past my lips, I wish I could grab them with my hands and crush them in my ...
BETH REVIS Silence and stars.
BETH REVIS I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I ca...
BETH REVIS Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to...
BETH REVIS When I finally get out of bed, the only thing I want to do is go straight to Amy and demand her forg...
BETH REVIS I want her so much that it overrides everything else, every other thought in my head, every instinct...
BETH REVIS ...that was before I'd started thinking about how life stuck on a ship wouldn't be so bad if Elder w...
BETH REVIS You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I'd know this was his room just from th...
BETH REVIS Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up...
BETH REVIS So you’re sticking with me, and I’m sticking with you.
BETH REVIS People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’r...
BETH REVIS I look up, and he’s searching my eyes, just like he did after kissing me for the first time in the...
BETH REVIS I open my mouth. I want o say: I'm breaking, and i need someone to hold me together.
But no sou...
BETH REVIS Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a ...
BETH REVIS Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars nev...
BETH REVIS It's Elder who's my safe place. Elder's my home.
BETH REVIS I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.
BETH REVIS I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe.

silence

and stars

A...
BETH REVIS But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits!
BETH REVIS I feel alone.
I don't mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket ...
BETH REVIS And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars.
A million suns.
Any of them ...
BETH REVIS Love without choice isn't love at all.
BETH REVIS I realize the simple truth is that power isn’t control at all- power is strength, and giving that ...
BETH REVIS Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun?
E...
BETH REVIS I can think of nothing but the stars. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is ...
BETH REVIS That—this—is Orion’s secret. It’s not that the ship isn’t working, that we’re never goin...
BETH REVIS I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They...
BETH REVIS Don’t you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole...
BETH REVIS I’ve heard that when you’re in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all...
BETH REVIS The dark sky.
A hundred million stars.
More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes le...
BETH REVIS Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowe...
BETH REVIS I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.
BETH REVIS And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring ...
BETH REVIS ...So, I do what any reasonable person would do when faced with a crying girl.
I get the frex o...
BETH REVIS But...If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise.
Let it end with hope.
BETH REVIS How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me becau...
BETH REVIS My heart will never forget what it’s like to fade in and out of time, to never know if one year or...
BETH REVIS All the computers in the world are on a network. They’re linked by our cuffs. But I’m a computer...
BETH REVIS I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single...
BETH REVIS I’ve made her relive, over and over, the last few days,” I say softly, watching Ms. White’s bo...
BETH REVIS And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.
B...
BETH REVIS I am as silent as death.
Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not...
BETH REVIS For a moment, he looks back at me, and his farewell is in his smile. Then he turns to the stars. BETH REVIS Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone.” A few people look up...
BETH REVIS Who are the real monsters?
BETH REVIS And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.
BETH REVIS I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don't mind leaving nearly everything behind.
BETH REVIS When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t cry.
BETH REVIS We need leadership. Last year, we had leadership, but it probably wasn't enough. This year, we're lo...
DARRELLE REVIS We call him Mr. Enthusiasm. He can talk and get us rowdy.
DARRELLE REVIS They might pick on the corner on the other side, but they might pick on me to see where my game is. ...
DARRELLE REVIS As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, wh...
BETH DITTO A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
BETH DITTO It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the lo...
BETH BROOKE My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by...
BETH BROOKE I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned te...
BETH DITTO Setbacks are just learning experiences.
BETH BROOKE I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.
BETH DITTO Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
BETH GIBBONS The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben...
BETH ORTON I enjoy doing fun things outdoors with my son to stay in shape. We like camping together. After a we...
BETH RIESGRAF My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigge...
BETH DITTO I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.
BETH DITTO I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
BETH HENLEY I think that people have to be able to see two sides of the coin to survive because it is a racist s...
BETH HENLEY I think I had a job in a children's theatre. I taught badly because I was into nihilism at the time ...
BETH HENLEY I remember not knowing what a cue light was because I'd never worked in a production that was high c...
BETH HENLEY I love writing for the screen.
BETH HENLEY I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
BETH HENLEY I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
BETH HENLEY I didn't really know how to get it to a producer or how to get it to an agent. Nobody's going to loo...
BETH HENLEY I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
BETH HENLEY But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a ...
BETH HENLEY Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow...
BETH FANTASKEY Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could bre...
BETH FANTASKEY Why did I sign up for this?'

'Because we grow by challenging ourselves.
BETH FANTASKEY "He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to ...
BETH HENLEY I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things ...
BETH GUTCHEON What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about thei...
BETH BROOKE What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn&...
BETH HENLEY Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists...
BETH DITTO I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday ...
BETH MOORE Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if...
BETH GRANT God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a parti...
BETH MOORE I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myse...
BETH DITTO The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are dif...
BETH GRANT I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it's so pretty! Also, I'm not a big fur person,...
BETH RIESGRAF As a business that's strategy-focused, I regularly experience bias on the part of male clients who a...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them t...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Women want to simplify what they perceive to be an unnecessarily complex shopping process. Above all...
BETH ZIMMERMAN When you go from one lecture hall to another or even home for the holidays, there is a desire to be ...
BETH ZIMMERMAN The key is for product manufacturers and developers is to maintain as much of the essential function...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Have some idea of how much you want to spend when you go into a contract with anyone. Allow approxim...
BETH YOUNG I always do landscape design with the functional needs of the homeowners foremost in my mind.
BETH YOUNG I think the confidence and optimism are there. I think they are really starting to believe. Confiden...
BETH YOUNG I heard her shout that she was good for 16. I told Simone I was going to hold her to it. She said, '...
BETH YOUNG There's still a lot of basketball to be played. We visit Allen on Tuesday and they're always tough. ...
BETH YOUNG We probably have six who can score 18 to 20 points. We have five to six which can easily do it.
BETH YOUNG We are the epitome of a true team. We don't have any superstars and everyone has stepped up in one w...
BETH YOUNG There's a lot more attention being given to board leadership than there was a couple of years ago. W...
BETH YOUNG You can't get down in this district. We started 0-2 and that makes it hard. You can't ever give up.
BETH YOUNG I'm still waiting on that one. We shoot about 30 percent and that would take about 300 shots. I thin...
BETH YOUNG It adds so much beauty to downtown, ... Fresh flowers in hanging baskets is a welcoming sign of a co...
BETH WOOD They are here in our city, they are visitors, they are welcome. We want to help them in any way we c...
BETH WOOD Everything we have today is donated. We have men with charcoal grills, we have tables and chairs don...
BETH WOOD Monies raised from the cruises will go to support the non-profit organization's efforts for travelin...
BETH WOOD A lot of students showed up, ... People milled around from shop to shop. The vendors were happy and ...
BETH WOOD This is the first study we've done with (the program). So it was a learning process, and because of ...
BETH WILSON It takes scarce dollars away from more effective programs that could help people stay out of trouble...
BETH WILSON There are a lot of liberty issues. I'm not sure these things are going to make us any safer and they...
BETH WILSON One of our best managers, her second language is English. We needed her to get better at English to ...
BETH WILSON One thing about the race itself is that it's totally unpredictable and that's why it's so fun to wat...
BETH WILSON After the Emmy the show picked up steadily through the seventh season, when they had people from 'Su...
BETH WILSON It's very irresponsible of legislators to invite costly litigation on something that they spent hard...
BETH WILSON I have no concerns about this project. I wholeheartedly endorse this development.
BETH WILLIAMS I was feeling pretty good. Then that weekend happened and every one of my teams went down. That's al...
BETH WILLIAMS I think we just needed to wake up and get warmed up. In the second quarter we lit it up.
BETH WILLIAMS Our focus at this hospital, today, yesterday and tomorrow, is to ensure a high quality of care. That...
BETH WILLIAMS Everybody gears toward stopping No. 22 and with everybody focused on Shelly Paige, it lets our other...
BETH WILLIAMS Only 5 percent of the death sentences were actually implemented, and I think that would be difficult...
BETH WILKINSON This was no mistake, no coincidence,
BETH WILKINSON This exciting program inspires young people to continue their education and consider law-related car...
BETH WILKINSON This is an ethical dilemma, and we did find several instances in which individuals stepped over the ...
BETH WILKINSON No matter how mad he makes you, don't do that,
BETH WILKINSON the death penalty was designed for.
BETH WILKINSON We never knew such a dark and horrible place existed in America until Timothy McVeigh sent us there,...
BETH WILKINSON He knew that death was a possibility and he didn't care,
BETH WILKINSON about as credible as sightings of Elvis.
BETH WILKINSON Agent Burmister found high explosives residue on Mr. McVeigh's clothing, including both his shirts t...
BETH WILKINSON Heartbreaking. I don't know what else to say about that. Frustrating.
BETH WALTERS Our errors killed us in one inning.
BETH WALTERS It was a pretty good job all around; the bats finally came through for us.
BETH WALTERS We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.
BETH WALTERS We had a pretty good game. We didn't hit but errors killed us. The players are still learning.
BETH WALTERS It's a tough way to start the season. We played well but a few errors hurt us.
BETH WALTERS In order for us to be successful, you have to have hitting throughout the lineup. Everyone throughou...
BETH VESA It's an awfully difficult sectional.
BETH VESA I thought in the third quarter we did a nice job offensively of being patient. We definitely need to...
BETH VESA I didn't think we were too rusty, we played pretty well. Actually, the break was tough for us, we ha...
BETH VESA The third quarter was bad for both teams and we were fortunate that they didn't capitalize on our po...
BETH VESA It's nice any game you can come out and execute and do things the way you're capable of doing. No ma...
BETH VESA The first three innings she mowed them down. In the fourth they got a couple of runs on her, but she...
BETH VESA It's been great having the support and for mom for being here.
BETH TWITTY Don't allow yourself to get into a condition where you are not able to defend yourself. This is not ...
BETH TWITTY I was confident I had taught her all she needed to know. But she'd built up a false sense of securit...
BETH TWITTY I was so glad to see that passport. Seeing it told me she was still on that island. Maybe I could fi...
BETH TWITTY It's such a difficult age. They're caught between a delicate balance of being under their parents' w...
BETH TWITTY Of course I'm encouraged about the news and the new development and the arrest, and I hope it leads ...
BETH TWITTY publicly acted as judge, jury and executioner.
BETH TWITTY One thing is we're going to have to have an answer. We're gonna have to. There's no way that I can j...
BETH TWITTY They have placed barriers to the advancement of the investigation. They should be replaced.
BETH TWITTY We hope that Aruba will show us they do have enforceable laws, such as perjury and obstruction of ju...
BETH TWITTY While we've heard a lot about the problem of obesity, only recently communities, schools and workpla...
BETH TRAPANI Despite efforts to address it, it's still a major health issue and a major challenge.
BETH TRAPANI Our society today has changed to the point where it's easier to be overweight than to be fit. We've ...
BETH TRAPANI While we've heard a lot about the problem of obesity, only recently communities, schools and workpla...
BETH TRAPANI In 2000, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommended this (tracking BMI) as a b...
BETH TRAPANI That's a good stinger for us. We needed an eye-opener, and every match is going to be just like that...
BETH TOCCI We keep plugging away. We work a lot of reception and getting more out of our serve. We have to comp...
BETH TOCCI Our focus was a lot harder this week on serve receive. And our kill efficiency was excellent. We use...
BETH TOCCI Our serve receive was huge. Our kids passed incredibly well.
BETH TOCCI It's nice, it's an honor. What a privilege to be able to defend a state title. So my job is to get t...
BETH TOCCI I thought we served well and I thought our back row defense was pretty good. I wasn't pleased with o...
BETH TOCCI It's a big job to find that many people to participate in this event.
BETH SWENSON I've requested every day off from work, so I'm waiting to get approved.
BETH SWENSON If people want to compete, they should be able to.
BETH SWENSON I was told I couldn't compete.
BETH SWENSON It's sort of a challenge to get food to people who can't find a way to eat.
BETH SWENSON A couple friends were going to volunteer last summer for the (Special Olympics Iowa) golf tournament...
BETH SWENSON I'm going to be one of the food service managers. Basically, I'll be feeding volunteers and athletes...
BETH SWENSON (Mary Greeley) is recruiting volunteers through its employee base to provide first aid. The hospital...
BETH SWENSON When I was a kid, I went to school in a small town. I wanted to play basketball - that was my dream.
BETH SWENSON Those cards and letters gave him more strength than anyone can imagine. They meant the world to him.
BETH SMITH Although the trip was physically and even emotionally draining, our group still had the ability to e...
BETH SMITH The state has two levels of funding because it makes sense. The district's decision makes no sense.
BETH SMITH We haven't gotten to really celebrate yet because we're filming right out of the chute. But we got w...
BETH SMITH You could be right about the elderly benefiting from the experience, but there are lots of questions...
BETH SMITH The chief of naval operations has outlined an aggressive enterprise IT strategy, and formation of th...
BETH SMITH We run generally about 15 teachers pretty much throughout the year. Many of them have classes that t...
BETH SMITH I want this to succeed for Tim, because if it succeeds for Tim, it succeeds for us, because we'll be...
BETH SMITH He was a hard catch. That's why I say he's my biggest and best catch.
BETH SMITH We're here to educate lawmakers on a poorly written bill that basically advocates for the fugitives ...
BETH SMITH We need to be more aggressive with our swings, ... But they are all things we can work on.
BETH SHELTON I was very pleased with our passing and defense, and we had some good heads up play, ... Overall, I ...
BETH SHELTON We're going into the game giving it everything we've got and hope to come home with a win.
BETH SHELTON She did very well in the tournament, but we knew she would, ... Beth is a steady player, she keeps h...
BETH SHELTON We have to focus on getting hitters to transition aggressively and play strong every time, ... We go...
BETH SHELTON