Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Letting yourself get hurt isn’t brave, love. Brave is protecting others from hurt.”

— Amie Kaufman

52. “And like roses in his hands, death blooms.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

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54. “We have failed, but I hope they will see how hard we tried.”

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55. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

56. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

57. “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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58. “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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59. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

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

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

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63. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

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

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66. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

67. “That’s my kind of girl!”

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

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69. “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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70. “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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71. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

72. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

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

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80. “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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81. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

82. “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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83. “The sound of her name is like music.”

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

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86. “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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87. “It’s great to be good, it’s better to be lucky.”

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88. “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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89. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

90. “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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91. “A soldiers first duty is to their conscience.”

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

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94. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

95. “I didn’t know Syldrathi blushed with their ears,” Tyler muses. “I am not blushing.” “I mean, it kinda looks like you’re blushing.” “I am not blushing.” “Ooookay,” Tyler nods. “I sometimes have that effect on people, is all.” “Is your request not to punch you still in effect, sir?”

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

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97. “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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98. “But I don’t know, so I have to believe. Sometimes, it’s easy, and sometimes it’s hard.”

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99. “Things always look darkest in the middle of the night.”

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100. “He could tell me he loved me, but he doesn’t know me the way a lover would; he knows the shape of me, though, the curve of my heart, as I know his. He could tell me he doesn’t want to lose me, but we’re both already lost, and only the tether between us keeps us from drifting out into the black.”

— Amie Kaufman