Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “We have failed, but I hope they will see how hard we tried.”

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53. “Every story needs its monster, Kady, but this story will end soon. And there is no place for me in the world that awaits you after this. Some place fine and far from here. So this is where we say goodbye.”

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54. “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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55. “I have heard it said that evil is simply a point of views the villain is always the hero in his own storybook. And the deliberation of “wrong” and “right” ever shift in the inconstant tides of human morality.”

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56. “The blade grows dull when it sleeps in its scabbard. Sharp when pressed against the stone.”

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57. “No neuroprogrammer is stupid enough to make a computer capable of conceptualizing deceit.”

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58. “But when there’s no hope to be found anywhere, even the tiniest chance is worth taking.”

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59. “She’s such a little thing in his arms. But their bodies fit together perfectly, like they were made to just the right measurements. Up on her toes, her arms wrapped around him.”

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60. “The family that eats together maintains a successful interstellar criminal organization together!”

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61. “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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62. “There’s a billion different versions of you out there, in a trillion different universes. And I still can’t get over how lucky I am that, out of all those versions you’re the one that’s mine.”

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63. “Just because you couldn’t save everyone doesn’t mean you’re any less of a – ” “A what?” “A hero.”

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64. “They fan out across the room, swift and surgical, the steps of this brutal ballet known by heart.”

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65. “And I learn that maybe I don’t suck at Peopling as much as I suspected. We stay up past my watch. We play way longer than we should. But hey, nobody’s thinking about bad dreams anymore.”

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66. “Take a bullet for you twice, if I have to.”

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67. “Know that we believe in you. And you must believe in each other. We the Legion. We the light. Burning bright against the night.”

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68. “That’s my kind of girl!”

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69. “Kady Grant,” supplies Grant Jr. “Child prodigy and occasional criminal.”

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70. “I think it’s very important to remember that no relationship, or friendship, is defined by one moment. It’s an accumulation of all the moments we spend together. All the little ways in which we say I love you or I respect you or You are important to me add up. And that cannot be erased with a few careless words.”

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71. “The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.”

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72. “And blood and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least they are together.”

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73. “Our regrets, our fears, they hold us back. We have to let them go so we can become what we’re supposed to be. We have to burn them all away.”

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74. “But love is purpose, be’shmai,” he says. “Love is what drives us to great deeds, and greater sacrifices. Without love, what is left?”

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75. “There is something in humanity more suited to the mechanics of murder than any machine yet devised.”

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76. “The sound of her name is like music.”

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77. “You’ll have lots of adventures in the future, and goodbyes will come with lots of them. The ones who love you will take pride in sending you on those adventures... And if one day, you do set off on all those adventures you imagine for yourself, I’ll be proud to have raised a daughter who’s brave enough to have followed her dreams. I promise.”

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78. “To be a leader, you have to set the example. To be a leader, you have to be the kind of person you’d want to follow you.”

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79. “I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.”

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80. “This girl has to be some kind of spider monkey. I don’t know what those are, but I know what a spider is and I know what a monkey is, and if you found some unholy way to combine the two, that’s what I’d be watching right now.”

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81. “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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82. “It’s great to be good, it’s better to be lucky.”

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83. “No-hopers?” I say. “You know, you’re lucky I’m such a soulless shrew. Otherwise you might be at risk of quite possibly maybe hurting my feelings.”

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84. “There is no love in violence. There is. No love. In violence.”

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85. “It may comfort you to know that your death, while astonishingly violent, will likely be mercifully swift.”

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86. “All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going.”

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87. “Our past makes us what we are.” “No,” I tell him, remembering the weight lifting from my shoulders as I let go of my mom and dad. “No, it doesn’t. We choose who we are. Every day. Every minute. The past is gone. Tomorrow is worth a million yesterdays, don’t you see?”

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88. “And then I said, “I’m bleeding,” and she said, “Shut up, I’m not talking to you,” so I just kinda concentrated on not dying.”

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89. “A soldiers first duty is to their conscience.”

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90. “I cannot help but wonder if his desire to see this place ripped to pieces pales in comparison to his desire to see her again.”

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91. “I’m the girl who’s going to save the damn galaxy.”

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92. “Love is a drop in the ocean of what I feel for her. Love is a single sun in a heaven full of stars.”

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93. “Apparently she’s got revenge on her mind, and it’s really annoying when people try to talk at you while you’re feeling murderish.”

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94. “Am i not merciful.”

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95. “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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96. “A lot of those stars actually died millions of years ago. It’s just they’re so far away, the light they created before they died hasn’t finished reaching us yet.” He waves at the galaxy beyond the glass. “You’re looking at a sky full of ghosts.”

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97. “Bravo Sherlock. That’s two lollipops I owe you.”

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98. “Brave is protecting others from hurt.”

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99. “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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100. “Good bras are expensive, and you have to wash them extra carefully or you quickly find yourself buying another expensive bra. Don’t get me started on the whole underwire thing. Humanity is a race capable of interstellar travel, and nobody’s invented a bra for girls my size that doesn’t feel like prison. Here is a truth universally acknowledged – taking that thing off at the end of the day is the single greatest feeling in the world.”

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