Beth Revis, The Body Electric Quotes
It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.
And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.
As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.
And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.
We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.
It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that’s already come true.
I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.
I have emotions, ” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.
I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.
If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.
When you wake up, your face will be dry. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t cry.
Ella!" the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.
She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
My heart stutters—not why? or how?—those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?
