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A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2) QUOTES

A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2) QUOTES

1 " Choice or no, my heart is his. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

2 " Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

3 " ...that was before I'd started thinking about how life stuck on a ship wouldn't be so bad if Elder walked around pantless more. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

4 " Is almost a good enough reason for fear ? "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

5 " I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

6 " I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate word. I see the stars as a part of the universe, and having spent my life behind walls, suddenly having none fills me with both awe and terror. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars.
A million suns.
Centuries away is Sol. Circling around it is Sol-Earth, the planet Amy came from. And one of these other stars is the Centauri binary system, where the new planet spins, waiting for us.
And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars.
Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home.
But all of them are out of reach. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

7 " Well, sometimes home is a person. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

8 " 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. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

9 " I feel alone.
I don't mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket resting on my body, or the feathers of my pillow under my head, or the tight string of my sleep pants twisted up around my waist. I feel alone as if it were an actual thing, seeping throughout this whole level like mist blanketing a field, reaching into all the hidden corners of my room and finding nothing living but me. It's a cold sort of feeling, this. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

10 " He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

11 " People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

12 " But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits! "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

13 " It's Elder who's my safe place. Elder's my home. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

14 " So you’re sticking with me, and I’m sticking with you. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

15 " You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I'd know this was his room just from the smell. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

16 " I want her so much that it overrides everything else, every other thought in my head, every instinct, every restraint. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

17 " When I finally get out of bed, the only thing I want to do is go straight to Amy and demand her forgiveness. Maybe we can at least go back to what we had before our fight, even if all we had was an awkward friendship punctuated by significant silences. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

18 " I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

19 " Silence and stars. "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)

20 " I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here’s the simple truth—if I hadn’t taken the ship off Phydus, people like ***** and ******* would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can’t tell me their side. [p.88] "

― Beth Revis , A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)