Shades of Earth Quotes

“I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn't determine whether you get it or not, that "no" might not be enough, that life isn't fair, that my parents can't save me, that maybe no one can.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“What is in our hearts is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness or silence.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“But death doesn't work like that. It doesn't care if someone loves you, doesn't want you to go. It just takes. It takes and it takes until eventually you have nothing left.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“But there's a difference, isn't there? Between saying goodbye and death.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“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 cocks an eyebrow. "You think I care if your eyes are blue or green? I just care about you." His hand slips down my arm, and he wraps his pinky finger around mine.

"You came back to me," I say, my voice breaking over unshead tears of joy.

"I'll always come back to you," he tells me pulling me close.


Always.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“I'll always come back to you.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“We all die someday." Maybe the only thing that makes that fact bearable is the idea that death is the only way we can return to the stars.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“There is only him and me and this thing between us that I cannot name, not out loud, but that my heart knows is love.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“It's hard to think about all the bad when she reminds me of all that's good.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“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.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“Who are the real monsters?”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“Sometimes home is a person.”
― Beth revis, Shades of Earth

“I choose this," I say, my voice ragged with want. "I choose you.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“If it's a matter of dying here or dying there, I think I'd like to at least see the world first.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“We fall into each other. All the other voices in my head--the fear, the doubt, the worry--are drowned out. I die at the end of each kiss and am brought gasping back to life at the beginning of the next. I close my eyes and the entire world fades away.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“We can fight, and we can disagree, but I'm never going to let you walk away from me thinking I don't love you.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“If someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back”
― Beth Revis , Shades of Earth

“Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“You could have valued our lives more than your secrets.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“She was a good person. She didn’t deserve to die.”
“I don’t think it works that way.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“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.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“Im here and he’s not. That I’m alive and he’s…”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“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 if I could just have him back again.

Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.

The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.

And then we see the end.
Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! of an exploding bomb.

There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.

Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.
Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.
Just light.
And then it’s gone.

And then he’s gone.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“I have the whole world now, but I don't have him.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“I have never desired anything more than him in this moment.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“For the past three months, the walls of Goodspeed forced us close together. Now I´m wondering if they were the only things that kept Amy near me.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth

“They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky.”
― Beth Revis, Shades of Earth