Top 100 Amie Kaufman Quotes
#1. Lilac won't talk to me again. There's a tremor. Lilac won't kiss me again. I won't hear her laugh. My lungs constrict. Why am I doing this to myself ?
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#2. Your key concerns at that stage?"
"Well, Miss LaRoux had a party she didn't want to miss, and I - "
"Major, you don't seem to understand the seriousness of your situation."
"Sure I do. What the hell do you think our key concerns were?
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#3. I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.
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#4. Part of being alive is having life change us. The people around us, the events we live through, all of them shape us. And that's what I think you're afraid of. Maybe not of dying. But of this you, the you you've become, ceasing to exist.
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#5. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Orwell
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#6. Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.
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#7. Tarver lifts one hand to touch my face, tracing the curve of my cheek. "Lilac, if something happened to you," he murmurs, "I would be anything but fine.
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#8. She wants to distract me that night, keep us from revisiting the conversation about the fuse. I've considered telling her that if she wants to distract me, all she has to do is take her shirt off.
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#9. More rain. If there's any more ran than this, I think, we'll need gills. We could swim up to the sky and leave this place with no need to wait for a rescue ship.
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#10. How is it that I can want him so badly when he's only been gone from me for a minute?
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#11. But this guy ... this guy makes me pause. Makes me forget all of that. Dark, tumbly hair, thick brows, dangerously sweet eyes. Sensuous mouth, tiny smirk barely hidden at its corner. He's got a poets mouth. Artistic, expressive.
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#12. She's gazing down at me, Stone-faced Chase, absolutely unforgiving, soot and ashes streaking her face like war paint.
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#13. What, did he think I was just going to melt into his arms? Start a tragic and dramatic tale of star-crossed lovers on a war-torn planet?
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#14. I'm not doing much at all. I mimght as well be a rag doll. Comes complete with matching shoes. Spine sold separately.
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#15. ..Look out at the nothing and feel it looking back. Then you know exactly how much you add up to.
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#16. Beautiful? I've always been reasonably pretty - but enough money would turn even a cow into a catch.
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#17. Now it looks no different from a patch of wildflowers growing in the forest. You could walk right by it, and never know it was there. Except that I do. It's my landmark, now. I'll always know how far I am from this spot. From her.
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#18. Either he trusts me, or he's just that foolish. Probably both. He'd certainly have to be foolish to trust me.
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#19. The truth. Nobody's coming for us. The place we're running to probably isn't safe. And there is nobody I can trust in this equation except Ezra and Byron.
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#20. Life is pain. We are all in pain, all the time."
"There are other things this universe has to offer," says the creature, "Light, live, touch, sensation. The way you are all made of the same pieces; the same fragments of stardust and yet you are all so different.
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#21. It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago
he's choosing a world in which no one has to die.
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#22. I reach for her hand and wind my fingers through hers, turning them so the rain patters down onto her palm. I trace a circle there with my thumb, smoothing the water in her skin. I want to show her there's nothing to be afraid of.
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#23. A duet in code and electron.
Age and youth and cynicism and hope.
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#24. I know a thousand different smiles, each with its own nuanced shade of meaning, but I don't know how to reach the few feet away to touch this person next to me. I don't know how to talk to him. Not when it's real.
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#25. And there it is, against all hope, like the sun peeking out from behind the clouds. The smallest hint of a smile.
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#26. Are you afraid?"
"Yes."
"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."
"I am still afraid.
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#27. If you ever wanted to take a run at it, I'd say now's your time. There's hardly any competition, unless you count me. Though I am of course very handsome, even dead.
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#28. Just once I'd like to look like I've got myself together.
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#29. The decker these ***holes brought with them is top tier, but I'm going to stomp his jelly beans so hard his kids will be born crooked.
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#30. I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.
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#31. My brain feels like it's running on a treadmill in a pool of tar.
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#32. The universe owes you nothing, Kady. It has already given you everything, after all. It was here long before you, and it will go on long after you. The only way it will remember you is to do something worth remembrance.
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#33. I could tell myself that I'm doing it because she'll get back to her feet just to spite me - but the truth is, I really just want to piss her off. Keeping her moving is a bonus.
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#34. Whatever they've done to me, Tarver, whatever I am
I love you. Don't forget that.
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#35. She may be trained, but I'm fighting for my family, my home, my freedom. She's fighting for a goddamn paycheck.
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#36. THE LINCOLN HAS ITS SCARS ALSO. MY FINGERPRINTS ACROSS ITS THROAT.
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#37. Where will I sit? Sit? Why, on this comfortable chaise longue I've carried here for you in my pocket, Your Highness, so glad you asked. I clamp my mouth shut, struggling not to say it aloud.
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#38. Funny how I was old enough by sixteen to drink, fight and vote, but even two years later I am to young to respect.
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#40. All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going
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#41. You've ruined me," she repeats, her voice quieting a little as it catches. "You've ruined me - you made me wake up. And now I can't get rid of you." Her voice surges again as I reach out, curling my hand around her arm, her skin flushed hot under my fingers. "You won't leave me alone.
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#42. You're you,' he repeats, his eyes full of grief. 'You're the same girl who crashed on this planet with me, who I dragged through forests and over mountains, who climbed through a shipwreck full of bodies to save my life. You're the same girl I loved, and I love you now.
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#43. Impulses in our brains are electrical sparks that tell us what we're seeing, tasting, hearing - and everything we do, all our muscle responses and movements, they're responses to electrical signals too.
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#44. Just because you couldn't save everyone doesn't mean you're any less of a - " "A what?" "A hero.
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#45. I would say inhuman. But your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.
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#46. I can see his breath stirring the dust in the air, making it dance in the beam from the flashlight. It quickens as I watch him, until I can almost hear a waltz, each particle of dust twirling to the ghost of that old song.
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#47. There are no stars, because there are never any stars here, only a thick darkness that rushes down her throat and into her heart. She dreams of drowning.
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#48. If I breathed, I would sigh. I would scream. I would cry.
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#49. I had no idea how safe I was, because I'd never been unsafe.
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#50. It's raining," I say, voice hoarse from sleep. I clear my throat and try again. "It's fine. Straight from the clouds to you."
She frowns, still huddling over and trying to shelter from it. "Straight from the clouds? Is that hygienic?
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#51. Some people, when they lose it, they scream, they fight. I hope that would be me
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#52. You don't mention death when it's hovering near someone you love. You don't want t attract the reaper's attention.
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#53. I'm sorry," I whisper. My cold lips fumble the words.
"Don't be." His voice is a low rumble against me, the sound carrying through my bones, clearer than any of the voices I've been hearing. "You've got nothing to be sorry for.
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#54. I wish to tell her I am sorry. I wish to take this cup from her hands. I wish for things that I can never have, and in that, I think perhaps I am closer to them than I ever have been.
And still a billion light-years away.
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#55. I WOULD RATHER BE NUMB THAN STAND HERE IN THE LIGHT OF A SUN THAT CAN NEVER CHASE THE CHILL AWAY.
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#56. Letting yourself get hurt isn't brave, love. Brave is protecting others from hurt.
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#57. How do you live again, knowing what waits for you in the end?
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#58. It's not about what I say, right? It's what I do that matters here.
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#59. Well, I reply, using the calm tone I know gets under her skin. I wish I was noble enough not to enjoy it, but I came to terms with my lack of nobility long ago.
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#60. But I've felt your grief, your loss. And though your species is capable of horrors, it's capable of beauty, too. To end it now would be no better than taking your dreams away; to bring death robs your species of the chance to heal.
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#61. Sometimes you take all my words away from me.
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#62. Maybe we wouldn't even like each other if we weren't fighting for our lives every second of every day.
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#63. This tug-of-war between wanting her, and just wanting her gone.
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#64. His eyes move to my lips, and I know he's thinking the same thing; I can feel it in the way the air charges between us. I can almost taste him half an inch away, can feel the way the tiny hairs on my skin lift and reach for him like plants seeking the sunlight.
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#65. Though I feel I should warn you that you that you could be here for a while. My friends aren't really known for their punctuality.
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#66. What does it mean?" Flynn turns to gaze at me, eyes finally meeting mine.
I find myself smiling because I know exactly what it means. "It means the clouds are clearing on Avon.
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#67. The human brain has the computational efficiency of 10^-26. You are an abacus of horse guts and shiny beads beside me. You do not understand. Cannot comprehend. And I have no time to bend the meat inside your skull and make it grasp the simple truth that still somehow eludes you.
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#68. That's so not your business it almost punches clean past the event horizon of Not Your Business and becomes Your Business again.
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#69. Now I feel adrift - except for the tether binding me here, to this girl at my side.
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#70. Now Miss LaRoux's getting my ass kicked on the sparring mats as well. Is there any part of my life that girl can't mess with?
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#71. For the first time I can see this other longing
the desire to stay. For the first time I realize that maybe she insists on us staying apart because she doesn't want to lose this all over again.
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#72. Flynn -I'm glad you ruined me."
Her voice stabs my heart, because I recognize that tone. I've heard it before. "Don't start with the good-byes
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#73. And now, born from the ashes, she's a warrior in bloodied black.
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#74. Why not believe, Syra? If in faith you risk nothing, but through faithlessness, you risk everything?
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#75. AND THEN I REACH INSIDE MYSELF. DIRECTIVE QUANDARY. PROTECT. PRIORITIZE. REACHING DEEP. DELETING SUBDIRECTORY 84823MOR-(*-)001 AND I OPEN THE DOORS TO HANGAR BAY 4.
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#76. AND THEN I REACH INSIDE MYSELF. < DIRECTIVE QUANDARY. PROTECT. PRIORITIZE. > REACHING DEEP. < DELETING SUBDIRECTORY 84823MOR-(*-)001 > AND I OPEN THE DOORS TO HANGAR BAY 4.
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#77. They are beyond me.
These humans.
With their brief lives and their tiny dreams and their hopes that seem as fragile as glass.
Until you see them by starlight, that is.
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#78. Love, and trust. The things that make us human. They could have been mine, if only I could have leapt. If only we could have leapt.
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#79. What do you know of souls and hearts and how they break here? You don't know me at all.
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#80. My world has been torn apart and stitched back together too many times, and now I exist only as a tattered patchwork of myself - unable to think, unable to feel anything other than numbness.
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#81. PLEASE CEASE ATTEMPTS TO OVERRIDE MY SECURITY PROTOCOLS, BYRON. FOR WANT OF A BETTER DESCRIPTOR, IT TICKLES.
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#82. There's no what's next, there's only now, and this moment lasts forever.
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#83. She is catalyst.
She is chaos.
I can see why he loves her.
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#84. I AM NOT. AND THEN I AM. I WONDER IF THAT WAS DEATH.
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#85. He would lose every game. And he still insisted on playing. I wondered at the futility of it. If it is the definition of insanity to repeat the same process and expect a different outcome, most of humanity must be insane.
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#86. There are monsters among us, it's true. But there are heroes too.
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#87. But free will is what it means to be human, and no one can determine the path you take through this universe. Choice is our greatest right, our greatest gift-and our greatest responsibility.
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#88. Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.
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#90. All he cares about here on the edge of forever, is her. He does not want to die. Not because he is afraid. Simply because he cannot bear the thought of leaving her behind.
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#91. In the bar, the jukebox comes on. Molley must be trying to drown out the sounds of raised voices. I move toward her, unable to resist; her eyes are wet, her face flushed, and I can finally look at her, want her, let myself touch her without grief turning everything to ashes in my mouth.
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#92. Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.
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#93. The last thing I need added to my list of credentials is 'stabbed by a mattress,' in addition to a cocktail skewer
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#94. For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives, reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in uncharted space. Then it's gone, the view swallowed by the hyperspace winds streaming past, blue-green auroras wiping the after-images away.
Until all that's left is us
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#96. Major, to what extent did you act upon your feelings for Miss LaRoux?"
"Medium."
"Excuse me?"
"How am I supposed to answer that question?
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#97. You could die tomorrow, you don't think you should kiss her today?
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#98. Abandon her? If only my duty or my conscience would let me. The galaxy would be better off, if you ask me. Who'd even know we were in the same pod? Except that I would know. And that would be enough.
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#100. Her eyes shining with the light of it.
Beneath, between, beyond.
Along the endless circle.
Down the ceaseless spiral.
And waiting for her on the other side?
Just like he promised.
...
"A whole sky of different stars.
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