{"author":"Beth Revis","author_id":"Beth+Revis","total_quotes":77,"quotes":[{"text":"What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["family-relationships","inspirational"],"id":14932,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["longing","nature","stars"],"id":27373,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["hell","my-mind","reverie","stuck","trapped"],"id":31993,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"I guess when someone's gone from your life for a while, all you think about are the big things. The big regrets, the could-have, should-haves. Or the big moments, the memories that are going to be with you forever, those life-changing moments, like first kisses and first confessions and first trusts. And you think about the lasts too: the last kiss, the last words, the last moments.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["loss"],"id":43157,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["apology","i-m-sorry","language","relationships","sorry"],"id":45100,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["madness","sanity","sanity-insanity","visions"],"id":54226,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["books","debut-","first-drafts","inspiration","persistence","publishing","writing"],"id":55921,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["memories","ourselves","part-of-me","remember","self","steal","take-away"],"id":60629,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"The silence in our house now is born from the need for intense concentration, as we all carefully step around the truth we wish we didn't know, the person we can't help that Bo became, the future we're all afraid is collapsing around us, falling as silent and cold and crushing as snow.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["mental-health"],"id":66327,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"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.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["a-million-suns","across-the-universe","amy","atu-series","awe","choking","earth","elder","emotion","galaxy","home","out-of-reach","planets","sea-of-stars","stars","terror","universe","unreachable"],"id":76602,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":77,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}