Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Things always look darkest in the middle of the night.”

— Amie Kaufman

102. “I am not feeling nothing.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

104. “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?”

— Amie Kaufman

105. “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

106. “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

107. “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.”

— 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.”

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

— 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. “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

115. “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

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

— Amie Kaufman

117. “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

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

— Amie Kaufman

119. “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?”

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120. “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

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

123. “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

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

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136. “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

137. “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

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

— Amie Kaufman

139. “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

140. “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?”

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

— Amie Kaufman

142. “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

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

— Amie Kaufman

144. “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

145. “And from the inside, surrounded by the joy and devotion and loyalty of my friends, the shimmer of rage on the outside of our lives looks paper-thin.”

— Amie Kaufman

146. “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.” Stop. Stop. No more. Please. My throat seizes. “I love you, Lilac.” His voice is soft, intent. “I love you, and I should’ve told you before you –.”

— Amie Kaufman

147. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

148. “Because if someone had tried to save my father, I would’ve kept them hidden until the soldiers came to drag me from this house.”

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149. “Beautiful? I’ve always been reasonably pretty – but enough money would turn even a cow into a catch.”

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150. “She may be trained, but I’m fighting for my family, my home, my freedom. She’s fighting for a goddamn paycheck.”

— Amie Kaufman