Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “There is nothing as painful, or as simple, as doing what is right.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

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

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

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “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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160. “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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161. “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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162. “I’m told bravado is impressive under certain circumstances, but I’ve yet to find them.”

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163. “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.”

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164. “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

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.”

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

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

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169. “Sometimes you take all my words away from me.”

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

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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “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.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

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

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178. “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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179. “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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180. “I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.”

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181. “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

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

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183. “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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184. “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.”

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

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

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

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190. “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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191. “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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192. “Like she is the piece that has been missing all my life.”

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

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194. “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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195. “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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196. “When she smiles, she looks like somebody I could know.”

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

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198. “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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199. “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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200. “My brain can’t get past the ‘if I lose you’. I want to correct her, but I haven’t worked out yet what the real end of the sentence is.”

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