Choice or no, my heart is his.
Beth Revis, A Million Suns.
“Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?”
“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 ont...”
“But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits!”
“...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.”
“Im sorry. The two most inadequate words in the English language.”
“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 inadequat...”
“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”
“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”
“The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating”
“This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and thats the truth.”
“Some people walk into our lives to touch our hearts and others to touch our soul!”
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”