Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

102. “I am not feeling nothing.”

— Amie Kaufman

103. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

105. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

106. “Am i not merciful.”

— Amie Kaufman

107. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

108. “Can’t lose myself in the people we left behind.”

— Amie Kaufman

109. “I understand now that the idea of unconditional “wrong” is flawed. To acknowledge life’s complexity, one must acknowledge the subjectivity of morality, and know that all manner of atrocity might be justifiable if done for the greater good.”

— Amie Kaufman

110. “I had no idea how safe I was, because I’d never been unsafe.”

— Amie Kaufman

111. “It’s all I can do not to turn my face toward his, the way a plant grows toward the light.”

— Amie Kaufman

112. “I think I’d like to be unconscious again, please. – Aurora.”

— Amie Kaufman

113. “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

114. “They engrave those callsigns on your coffin when you get X-ed out. Last thing you wanna picture when you imagine your send-off is a bunch of fellow Cyclone drones standing around toasting the death of “Lieutenant Sugarpants.”

— Amie Kaufman

115. “I wonder if she is the kind to dream of happy endings and never risk tragedy.”

— Amie Kaufman

116. “He asks for nothing, this boy. No favor. No quarter. He lives every moment of his life is pain, but still, he lives it. And he stands, where others would have long ago fallen.”

— Amie Kaufman

117. “It’s not a universal law or anything, but given the option in an empty bathroom, most folks are gonna pick the stall at the end to put maximum distance between them and anyone else who wanders in after them. It’s just good etiquette, people.”

— Amie Kaufman

118. “Is it weird that this girl’s don’t-mess-with-me tone makes me want to tell her she can mess with me any day she wants?”

— Amie Kaufman

119. “But faced with the choice of living one breath longer or crashing in right now, most folks would take the extra moment. That single extra breath. Even when your world stops spinning and gravity dies and the blood glitters in the air like a galaxy of warm red suns all around you. A lot can happen between breaths, after all.”

— Amie Kaufman

120. “McNulty, J, Sgt: Mason, if u no send, I will make it my mission in life to teabag you while you sleep.”

— Amie Kaufman

121. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

122. “And he kisses her like she’s the first, last and only thing he’ll ever need, like he’s learning every last part of her.”

— Amie Kaufman

123. “She is a dream, alive and warm in my arms, and I burn with the feel of her, the smell of her, the taste of her. She is smoke and starlight, she is blood and fire, she is a song in my veins as old as time and deep as the Void, and as I feel her surge against me, the flutter-soft touch of her tongue against mine, she almost destroys me.”

— Amie Kaufman

124. “Nothing ceases to exist. Energy does not perish, it merely changes forms. The ones you love, the ones you lose, they still exist as long as the cosmos does.”

— Amie Kaufman

125. “Wonderfully noble. Beautifully human. Tragically stupid.”

— Amie Kaufman

126. “The more you lose, the more you realize you don’t have much left.”

— Amie Kaufman

127. “I’m leaning against the bookshelves when it occurs to me that one thing here is real-the books. I reach behind me and let my fingers trail over the rough leather of their antique spines, then pull one free. Nobody here reads them; the books are for decoration. Chosen for the richness of their leather bindings not for the contents of their pages. Nobody will miss one, and I need a dose of reality.”

— Amie Kaufman

128. “Why not believe, Syra? If in faith you risk nothing, but through faithlessness, you risk everything?”

— Amie Kaufman

129. “Some people, when they lose it, they scream, they fight. I hope that would be me.”

— Amie Kaufman

130. “Promise me that no matter what you hear, you won’t go off on your own to investigate. I want your word.” There’s a command in his voice, soft as it is.”

— Amie Kaufman

131. “I am wondering what kind of heart beats beneath those ribs of yours.”

— Amie Kaufman

132. “I hear swinging in commando style is all rage among interstellar murder squads atm.”

— Amie Kaufman

133. “I’ve seen people die. Die hard. Die messy. Job like mine, you live with the reaper every day. But if you’re unlucky, it’s not the bullets that kill you in this gig. It’s moment like these. Killing you one piece at a time.”

— Amie Kaufman

134. “They’re asking me to risk my life to save the damn galaxy, Kal. I think they can give me a little company on the ride.”

— Amie Kaufman

135. “Guys like this make me want to believe in God.”

— Amie Kaufman

136. “The thing I was raised to be is acutely aware of how easy it would be to reach out and break this human boy. But the man I try to be keeps his arms folded instead.”

— Amie Kaufman

137. “I don’t have the luxury of dealing with his hormones- or mine, for that matter. 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?”

— Amie Kaufman

138. “Those who truly know us see the whole, never just a part.”

— Amie Kaufman

139. “Merendsen just grins. “Because I’m in love with her, Captain. Because she’s stubborn, and kind and strong and smart, and I don’t want to go a day of my life without her, not ever again.” Jubilee crosses over.”

— Amie Kaufman

140. “Hey, if hostile battleship takeovers were easy, everybody would do it.”

— Amie Kaufman

141. “And with no hope to hold it in check, grief finally steps out to take its place on the stage.”

— Amie Kaufman

142. “Your kind have perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.”

— Amie Kaufman

143. “When we allow ourselves to explore, we discover destinations that were never on our map.”

— Amie Kaufman

144. “She’s gazing down at me, Stone-faced Chase, absolutely unforgiving, soot and ashes streaking her face like war paint.”

— Amie Kaufman

145. “I am often told I defy expectations.”

— Amie Kaufman

146. “Tomorrow might be worth a million yesterdays. But a tomorrow without him isn’t worth anything at all.”

— Amie Kaufman

147. “The mere sight of her is water in an endless desert.”

— Amie Kaufman

148. “What you do when stuff like this happens is you LIVE, you survive it, that’s how you honour the ones you lost.”

— Amie Kaufman

149. “The fighters are tiny. Insects, really. But ants can slay an elephant, if there are enough of them.”

— Amie Kaufman

150. “You fall in love enough, you’re gonna be nothin’ but scar tissue.”

— Amie Kaufman