Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 4 of 6

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

154. “Life is for living. The ones you left behind will be all right, I promise. The ones you leave behind in the future will be all right too, even if you make it all the way to another planet.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

156. “That’s so not your business it almost punches clean past the event horizon of Not Your Business and becomes Your Business again.”

— Amie Kaufman

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Amie Kaufman

160. “Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You’re exactly my kind of girl.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

162. “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

163. “All he thinks of amid this loveless dance, 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. And there, in that tiny moment, I envy him.”

— Amie Kaufman

164. “Tarver lifts one hand to touch my face, tracing the curve of my cheek. “Lilac, if something happened to you,” he murmurs, “I would be anything but fine.”

— Amie Kaufman

165. “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

166. “Her arms curl around his neck, and his mouth finds hers like he’s drowning and she’s air, and her feet come clean off the ground as the world is forgotten.”

— Amie Kaufman

167. “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

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

— Amie Kaufman

169. “There is nothing as painful, or as simple, as doing what is right.”

— Amie Kaufman

170. “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

171. “He has blue eyes, blond shaggy hair, and dimples that can explode ovaries at thirty meters.”

— Amie Kaufman

172. “Whatever they’ve done to me, Tarver, whatever I am – I love you. Don’t forget that.”

— Amie Kaufman

173. “There’s no we here. You understand me? There’s never going to be a we. There’s just you and I.”

— Amie Kaufman

174. “There are never clear skies on Avon, no blue, no stars. But we don’t give up hope, and we use those words to remind ourselves. Clear skies will come, one day.”

— Amie Kaufman

175. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

176. “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

177. “These friends, who’re risking their lives for me. Our little light, shining in all this darkness. I’ve never really believed in destiny. But out in all this nothing, I’ve never been so certain of who I am and where I’m supposed to be.”

— Amie Kaufman

178. “It’s funny. Who’d have thought I’d have to travel to the other end of the galaxy to find the place I’m supposed to be?”

— Amie Kaufman

179. “I’m told bravado is impressive under certain circumstances, but I’ve yet to find them.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

181. “I’m not going to sit here and spitball about hyperspatial reality theory with a psychopathic calculator. This conversation is over.”

— Amie Kaufman

182. “Insane quasi poetry glorifying a pointless act of intimacy.”

— Amie Kaufman

183. “But to reject my darker side only strengthens it. To lock it in a cage, to deny it is part of me... I cannot stop being what I am. Instead, I must muster the rage to master it.”

— Amie Kaufman

184. “But they have not seen their sun die. Their people burn. Their world end. And they do not know, yet, that there are some breaks that cannot be fixed.”

— Amie Kaufman

185. “Like she is the piece that has been missing all my life.”

— Amie Kaufman

186. “She wants to distract me that night, keep us from revisiting the conversation about the fuse. I’ve considered telling her that if she wants to distract me, all she has to do is take her shirt off.”

— Amie Kaufman

187. “This is a wilderness waiting to swallow me; I’d barely make a dent trying to fight it. There are no rules for me to learn, no points to be scored, no bluffs to be called. This is a hell I’ve never imagined. And I think I’m going to die here.”

— Amie Kaufman

188. “You work your whole life for a Thing, it’s only natural the Thing be important to you.”

— Amie Kaufman

189. “I was his big brother, Hanna. It was on me to protect him.”

— Amie Kaufman

190. “You found a new family when you became a wolf – that’s what they’re always saying here, that we’re a pack. But having a new family doesn’t mean you give up the old one. Just because you’re adding something to who you are doesn’t mean you have to give up who you used to be.”

— Amie Kaufman

191. “I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.”

— Amie Kaufman

192. “It is an honor to meet the last of anything, Lady.”

— Amie Kaufman

193. “You could die tomorrow, you don’t think you should kiss her today?”

— Amie Kaufman

194. “Dorian, C, Corp: It’s my sincere belief that your potential is wasted in that sweaty little cockpit. You should be doing the Coreworld lecture circuit. Imagine it: Packed houses. Perfect hair. Screaming girlchildren. “Tonight Only. Ezra Mason: How To State The Bleeding Obvious.”

— Amie Kaufman

195. “Tomorrow is worth a million yesterdays.”

— Amie Kaufman

196. “I don’t know if I believe prophecies. I don’t know if I believe in her gods or her destiny. I don’t know if I believe in any of this. But I believe in her.”

— Amie Kaufman

197. “The last thing I need added to my list of credentials is ‘stabbed by a mattress,’ in addition to a cocktail skewer.”

— Amie Kaufman

198. “Now I feel adrift – except for the tether binding me here, to this girl at my side.”

— Amie Kaufman

199. “We have the whole galaxy arrayed against us,” I tell him. “But this is where we are meant to be. We are part of something greater now; I feel it in my bones. You will lead us through this. And I will follow you, Brother.”

— Amie Kaufman

200. “The traces of worry, sorrow, fear, all of them smoothed over as she slips into the code, the network, the world where she doesn’t need a pair of legs to run. She lets loose her defenses, the spider god at her back spewing one million glittering minions onto her datawalls, defending their mistress’s layer with swords and shields of ones and zeros.”

— Amie Kaufman