Beth Revis, A Million Suns
9 quotes
"Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?"
"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."
"Well, sometimes home is a person."
"I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language."
"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."
"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."
"He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos."
"People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We’re all spiraling out of control."