Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – Orwell.”

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2. “The universe owes you nothing... 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 if you do something worthy of remembrance.”

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3. “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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4. “There are monsters among us, it’s true. But there are heroes too.”

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5. “You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.”

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6. “There is no love in violence.”

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7. “I am frequently underestimated. I think it’s because I’m short.”

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8. “It can be “right” to kill one person to save five. Or kill a thousand to save a thousand and one. Your daughter taught me that lesson, priest. I will remember it well. Memento.”

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9. “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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10. “Um, sir?” Finian de Seel says. “We might have a problem.” “You mean aside from you interrupting my speech? Because I’d been practicing it in my head for an hour and it was gonna be great.”

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11. “My brain feels like it’s running on a treadmill in a pool of tar.”

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12. “You don’t understand the unbearable beauty of being you.”

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13. “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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14. “She lets me take her hand, our fingers interlocking the way she and the green-eyed boy have let their hearts interlock – separate but inseparable. In this moment I find I envy them their individuality, their uniqueness, the beauty of being able to touch like this. In this moment I envy the green-eyed boy that he will always be able to touch her like this.”

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15. “Even the most beautiful tree in the forest-sea cannot live forever. When it dies, it decomposes, returning its life to the earth, and clearing a space for the sun, and a hundred new plants spring up from its grave. The old must make wag for the young – it is the way of life itself... there is a difference between that natural cycle of death and rebirth, and simply killing everyone in both our worlds.”

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16. “He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face. I can see the stars reflected in his eyes, can see the wonder of it in the way his mouth opens but no sound comes out. His eyes, his face – they’re beautiful.”

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17. “His face is close to mine, his hand warm against my back through my shirt. Despite the smile on his lips, his gaze is so sad it feels like my heart is ripping in two, turning to ash as I look at him. He knows as well as I do that neither of us is leaving Avon alive if we touch down again. He’ll never see snow, and I’ll never teach him what skis are.”

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18. “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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19. “This time I look at him longer, properly, scanning his face for some sign of what he is thinking – some judgment, some hint of blame or guilt that I’m standing there, talking about leaving his people and mine, about abandoning our whole lives. About running away. But he only smiles at me, his fingers sliding from my cheek to twine around a floating lock of hair, making it spiral in midair.”

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20. “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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21. “You’re the most important thing in this universe. You; this vessel; the people of this planet; lovers, warriors, artists, leaders, dreams more numerous than stars. Each mind unique, each thought created for an instant and then broken apart to form new ones. You don’t understand the unbearable beauty of being you.”

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22. “He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face.”

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23. “He’s as tense as I am, maybe even more so, but it’s so hard to reconcile that with the serenity of weightlessness. His faux-blond hair is floating out away from his head. He’s wearing a worn, much-mended, and too-large shirt his friend in town must’ve found for him to help him blend in. He looks nothing like the Romeo who dragged me off the base, nothing like the Cormac who threw himself between his own people and me. It’s like that guy’s gone, and I killed him.”

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24. “My breath catches, responding to an unfamiliar pull in my chest, an ache in my soul. I shouldn’t miss him, but I do; this boy who had every right to pull that trigger, and instead threw himself between me and death. This boy, the only one who believes I’m not what they say I am what I believed I was; a soldier without a soul, a girl with no heart to break. He’s the only one who’s proved me wrong.”

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25. “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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26. “Flynn’s reaction is electric, for all he only moves an inch, straightening, gaze fixed on the sky overhead. Though his eyes are on the clouds, I can’t help but watch his silhouette in the darkness.”

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27. “Flynn’s reaction is electric, for all he only moves an inch, straightening, gazed fixed on the sky overhead. Though his eyes are on the clouds, I can’t help but watch his silhouette in the darkness. The way his mouth is set, the hope and determination there – the strength of his shoulders, the energy in the way he gazes skyward. The breeze stirs his hair, and I find myself transfixed.”

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28. “Love is more powerful than rage, or hate. And it always will be. Love can change everything.”

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29. “Know the way. Show the way. Go the way.”

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30. “And now, born from the ashes, she’s a warrior in bloodied black.”

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31. “Patience and Silence had one beautiful daughter. And her name was Vengeance.”

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32. “When in doubt, eat your way out.”

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33. “Would you kill one person to save one thousand? And by logical extension, would you not kill one thousand to save one-thousand-and-one?”

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34. “Live a life worth dying for.”

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35. “Do moons choose the planets they orbit? Do planets choose their stars? Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than an constellation in the sky?”

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36. “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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37. “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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38. “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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39. “The floating market takes shape amid a flutter of torches and spellfire, each pinprick of light tailed by its glittering reflection in the river beneath.”

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40. “But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”

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41. “I still find it curious. The human tendency to ask questions to which you already know the answers.”

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42. “Feeling so tiny makes me realize just how big what we’re all a part of is. And being out here in all this emptiness somehow makes me completely aware of everything I am and have.”

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43. “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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44. “Who wants to be normal when you can be interesting instead? – Scar.”

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45. “Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.”

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46. “She runs. Not away, but toward.”

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47. “I’ll keep your secrets. Shut my mouth. But I can’t shut my eyes.”

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48. “If I breathed, I would sigh. I would scream. I would cry.”

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49. “You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamond in your hair.”

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50. “Letting yourself get hurt isn’t brave, love. Brave is protecting others from hurt.”

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