Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I can see it in his eyes. All those years of military training, all those years of yessir, no sir, may I have another, sir. You don’t get to be top Alpha in the academy by rocking the boat. You don’t get to be the Goldenboy by not following orders.”

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202. “Either he trusts me, or he’s just that foolish. Probably both. He’d certainly have to be foolish to trust me.”

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203. “How is it that I can want him so badly when he’s only been gone from me for a minute?”

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204. “What we had was all we’d ever have-we couldn’t simply flee the world we were destroying to find another.”

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205. “I would say inhuman, but your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.”

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206. “Tomorrow is worth a million yesterdays.”

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207. “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.”

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208. “Don’t look at me!”

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

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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “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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214. “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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215. “What do you know of souls and hearts and how they break here? You don’t know me at all.”

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216. “I am struck by a realization: a computer will perform a takeoff or landing with all the grace of a person. It is only for combat – only for the artristy of ruin – that these vessels have pilot seats at all anyome. There is something in humanity more suited to the mechanics of murder than any machine yet devised.”

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217. “Just once I’d like to look like I’ve got myself together.”

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218. “How can she go so quietly into this long good night?”

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219. “All of it happening in perfect, absolute.”

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220. “Aurora is supposed to use the Weapon to destroy the Ra’haam seed worlds,” Zila says softly. “And the Starslayer somehow destroyed the Syldrathi sun.”

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221. “It’s not about what I say, right? It’s what I do that matters here.”

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222. “How do you live again, knowing what waits for you in the end?”

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223. “It’s always easier to do the expected thing than the right thing.”

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224. “A warrior might be all you were raised to be, Kal,” I say. “But it’s not all you are.”

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225. “Ms. Grant displays strong anti-establishment sentiments and has an awkward habit of questioning authority figures at all the wrong moments. This, combined with the intelligence she tries to so hard to conceal, makes her something of a liability.”

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226. “If you can’t reprogram the software, reprogram the hardware, right?”

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227. “I know blooded warriors who would have crumbled to dust under such a weight. And yet, here you stand. Strong and beautiful and unconquered.”

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228. “That version of me – the one who thought she had any idea what life-and-death stakes were – feels young and far away, even though, really, she was me only a few days ago.”

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229. “Love, and trust. The things that make us human. They could have been mine, if only I could have leapt. If only we could have leapt.”

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230. “Anders didn’t know the answer either. He didn’t know what they’d do next, or how they’d keep the peace. It couldn’t be another act of brute force, another attempt to force the hands of Ulfar and Drekhelm. It would have to be something new. But as he watched Sakarias break a bread roll in half and pass the other piece to Ellukka with a tentative smile, he knew one thing for sure. Whatever he did next, he’d do it with all his friends at his back.”

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231. “There is a gravity to everything. I told Aurora that, not so long ago. Looking into her eyes as I finally confessed all I was feeling for her. Every atom in our bodies, every atom in the universe exerts a gravity on the atoms around it. Gravity is one of the forces holding all this together. It is inexorable. Nothing rises without falling. It is not a matter of if, but when.”

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232. “You humans fascinate me. I am shattered fragments of what I once once. But even with all the King’s horses and all the King’s men, I wonder if even I could truly comprehend you.”

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233. “Love, and trust. The things that make us human.”

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234. “Know your enemy’s heart if you wish to feast upon it.”

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235. “A billion light-years from here, back when nothing and no one else mattered to them. When they were each other’s everything. And he pulls her close and her mouth finds his, her fingers running through his hair as she kisses him like he’s the only thing she can remember in all the universe. As if they’re kissing for the very first and very last time.”

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236. “Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy.”

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237. “It’s the very great fortune of everything else in the Galaxy that Ultrasaurs are now almost extinct, but in the unlikely event of an encounter, traditional wisdom dictates dying quickly as the best course of action.”

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238. “Know the past, or suffer the future.”

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239. “He smiles at her like he’s not tired at all, like he’s not wearing another man’s blood under his suit, like all he wanted in life was to catch a glimpse of her.”

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240. “It all threatens to well back up, the tangle of things I’m too exhausted to face. There’s only one thing I know with absolute certainty, and as I whisper her name and lean into her again, she lets me. Her hand leaves my chest and invites me in – she cups my cheeks as our lips meet, drawing me away from the frantic heat and toward something slower, something quiet. Something real.”

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241. “I can see he’s trying so hard to lead us, and I ache for him every second. But sometimes it feels like the only reason we’re still moving is that none of realizes we’ve already been mortally wounded. We haven’t realized we’re supposed to fall down.”

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242. “I remember you telling me when I was younger that a man without a library is a man without romance in his soul.”

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243. “Hmm.” I make a show of patting down my uniform, peering down my tunic. “I seem to have left the part of me that cares in my other pants.”

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244. “I figure there’s no harm in making a little light for ourselves, here in the dark.”

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245. “The computer is impressive in scale, but ultimately a mere calculator. No real intelligence within it. No thought. No creativity. No soul.”

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246. “No matter what the storybooks say, monsters rarely look the part.”

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247. “You must choose which stones to carry, for if you try to carry them all, you will be dragged down by their weight and drown in the depths. But you may find that as you swim, you grow stronger for the stones in your pockets. You may find you can carry more than you knew.”

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248. “But, you know, sometimes dreams aren’t so bad when you say them out loud.”

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249. “Humans are all one species,” I reply. “But we’re all different. Perhaps, under harsh enough circumstances, any of us might be driven to do the unimaginable.”

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250. “The boy who promised her a whole sky of different stars.”

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