( BETH REVIS ) ( ACROSS THE UNIVERSE )
“I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn’t have one.”
“Dreams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they’re never real. They’re never real, and I hate them because they aren’t.”
“Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others.”
“A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger.”
“A leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
“In the end, we are alone.”
“It is like a piece of my soul is lost, empty.”
“If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise. Let it end with hope.”
“Sorry? Sorry isn’t enough.”
“Every single thing I ever loved is beyond my reach now. Everything I ever wanted. Everything I ever was.”
“A leader doesn’t make pawns - he makes people.”
“Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not.”
“ It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me.”
“There is nothing between us but rain. There is nothing between us at all.”
“I will never, never be the same.”
“You must dedicate your whole life to this.”
“You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength.”
“You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope.”
“What if I am dead? How can someone without a beating heart, without breathing lungs live like I do? I must be dead.”
“I want to scream. I want to throw open my eyes wake up and not be alone with myself anymore, but I can’t. I can’t.”
“I will spend all of eternity trapped in my dead body. I will be locked within myself forever.”
“It’s bad, being frozen, but it’s better than waking up alone.”
“Everyone has secrets and if you keep asking, you’ll see how far I’m willing to go to keep mine.”
“Memories always kill nightmares.”
“I’m going to find a way to fix you.”
“People are supposed to be like that: obedient, calm, working together. It’s us who can’t obey, can’t focus, who can’t work together, — we’re the ones who aren’t normal.”
“What were you running from?”
“It’s not like I’ve done anything wrong!”
“Like walking through water. Like drowning.”
“This journey… it’s long.”
“Why run? Run where? What’s the point?”
“People will survive anything for their children.”
“Does it matter if it’s a lie if it keeps us alive?”
“Old people die. It’s what they do.”
“This is… mating, it’s not love.”
“The first cause of discord is difference.”
“I’m not going to be the one to let her drown.”
“Well, that did the trick.”
“I can’t do this. I can’t. It’s too much.”
“Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken.”
“I am surrounded by walls. I just replace one box for another.”
“What we imagine is often worse than the truth.”
“Oh, don’t worry, we’re all mad here.”
“I know I look different. But I’m just a person, like you.”
“I definitely think I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole.”
“I don’t like dreams. Sleep is too much like dying.”
“They are dreams, but I’m too out of control, I lose myself in them, and I’ve already lost too much to let them take over.”
