Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Sometimes you take all my words away from me.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

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153. “Billions of words over thousands of years. Songs and sonnets, couplets and hymns. All trying to evoke even a fraction of how this feels. Having lived it now, I know not a single one of them has come close.”

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154. “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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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161. “The ones you love, the ones you lose, they still exist as long as the cosmos does.”

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162. “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.”

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

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164. “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.”

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

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

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167. “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.”

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

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

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170. “Maybe we wouldn’t even like each other if we weren’t fighting for our lives every second of every day.”

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

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172. “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.”

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173. “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.”

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

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

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176. “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.”

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177. “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.”

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178. “When she smiles, she looks like somebody I could know.”

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179. “Just because you’re not saying it doesn’t mean you’re not thinking it.”

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180. “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.”

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181. “Saedii sits there in the aftermath of my confession. I expect her to laugh. To call me a liar and a lunatic, to react the way any normal person might when you tell them that an ancient plant-being that lost a war against a race of ancient psychics is set to wake up after a million-year dirt-nap and nom down on the entire galaxy.”

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182. “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.”

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183. “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.”

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184. “This tiny moment. In between the time you decide to pull a trigger and the time death arrives. There’s just you and it and everything you’re about to take away. It’s too big. It goes forever.”

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185. “There’s no what’s next, there’s only now, and this moment lasts forever.”

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

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

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188. “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.”

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

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190. “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

191. “We must stand united in this, Aedra,” Kal replies calmly. “Or fall alone.”

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192. “Human he might be. Weary and bruised and flawed as the rest of them. But in battle, everyone bleeds the same.”

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

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

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196. “We don’t even know each other, Flynn. Not really. Not outside of this.” My gesture indicates the shuttle, but he knows I mean all of it. ” Maybe we wouldn’t even like each other if we weren’t fighting for our lives every second of every day.”

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197. “The Legion stands for something real. There’s people out there who need our help, and we’re not helping any of them by sitting here feeling sorry for ourselves. I’ve still got the Legion’s best pilot in my squad.” He smiles at Cat, giving her a double shot of dimples. “That’s a start, right?”

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198. “His eyes move to my lips, and I know he’s thinking the same thing; I can feel it in the way the air charges between us. I can almost taste him half an inch away, can feel the way the tiny hairs on my skin lift and reach for him like plants seeking the sunlight.”

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199. “Follow your heart. It’s simple advice. But probably the hardest to follow. It’s always easier to do the expected thing than the right thing.”

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200. “Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?”

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