Top 280 Amie Kaufman Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Apart from telling Scar that I’d crawl over cut class for a date with her if we both survive this thing, I’m drawing a blank.”

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252. “We’re outnumbered a hundred to one. The GIA has Auri in custody. They have our Longbow locked down. But I’ve studied Terran space vessels since I was six – I know the layout of a destroyer backward. And though this pack of losers and discipline cases and sociopaths might’ve been the last picks on anyone’s mind during the Draft, turns out none of them are bad at their jobs. If I can hold this together, get us working as a team, we might even make it out of this alive...”

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253. “And her smile is the only heaven I’ve ever know.”

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254. “I don’t like to lose control. That’s why I don’t drink. I don’t do drugs. I don’t even swear.”

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255. “I have heard it said that evil is simply a point of view. The villain is always the hero in his own story.”

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256. “I always believed in you. Before I believed in any of the rest of it, I believed in you.”

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257. “But there is no comparing loss, be’shmai. I did not mean to do so. I only meant to say that I understand what you feel. And if I could take your pain away, I would.”

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258. “I would love you if we were not a prince and a goddess. If we were farmers on the smallest of the sky islands, if we were river striders fishing for our suppers. I would love you if I was nothing.”

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259. “It’s about time.”

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260. “Nothing’s forever, Auri. Everything has its season. The world keeps turning and the stars keep dancing after we’re gone, just as they all did before we came.”

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261. “Love offers choice, and I made mine – I made the choice my squad had taught me from the moment I met them. Your family is where you find it, and this is mine.”

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262. “I have lived this story before, Scarlett, and this time I will change the ending. – Zila.”

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263. “Michelle Dennis is just a girl, but in this moment, she’s saved every one of her comrades in arms. In this moment, she’s both ordinary and extraordinary. Just like everyone in this story.”

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264. “We are part of a clan we have chosen. A clan we have built not with bonds of blood, but with promises we have chosen to make. We have pledged our hearts to our cause, and to each other.”

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265. “The first casualty of war is oral hygiene, Hustler.”

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266. “Love should never ask you to give up the things that make you different. The truths that can only be told about you, and nobody else.”

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267. “And not that this is a really stupid way to die.”

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268. “My father named this vessel Neridaa – a Syldrathi concept that describes the process of simultaneously destroying and creating.”

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269. “Hey, if you’ve got ’em, flaunt ’em.”

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270. “If you’re asking where I found the skill, courage, and general fabulousness to perform emergency surgery in the middle of all this chaos, well. If you think that after auditioning all those guys to find the perfect boyfriend I was going to let a little thing like a tracheotomy get in the way of true love, you’ve clearly underestimated how tired I am of this search.”

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271. “Even the sound of her name makes my heart swell.”

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272. “Even were you to perish today, the atoms of your body would remain. Over eons, those particles would break apart and coalesce, become incorporated into other beings, other planetary bodies. Drawn into collapsing stars and scattered again by supernovae.”

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273. “A book captures a story within its pages. Not like a specimen pinned out lifelessly for display, but vivid and alive. A whole world lies within the cover, a life waiting to be lived by each new reader.”

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274. “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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275. “Someone comes.” Tyler looks up from the server, elbow-deep in cable. “You sure?” I peer back down the corridor at the approaching Terran. He carries an armload of computer equipment and wears a tool belt full of e-tech. He is three days unshaven, glares at the security personnel around him with an air of undisguised contempt, and looks as though he has not slept in seven years. “He certainly has the appearance of a man who works with computers, yes.”

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276. “Instead, I have to muster the rage to master it.”

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277. “Of all the thing I have seen and the places I have been, you were the one who felt most like home.”

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278. “The anger is a shield, and if I relinquish it, I’ll shatter.”

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279. “I am a mirror, and all of me is broken.”

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280. “If you die then I will too.”

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281. “I never said I had bad news,” our Gearhead replies, tapping on his keyboard. “I said I had absolutely terrible news.”

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282. “It’s just ugly, like someone really angry built it. I don’t know what it is with Terrans and their design aesthetic.”

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283. “Thank the stars for the behavior protocols they’ve got on it. I honestly don’t know what it could do if they actually let it off the leash.”

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284. “The future is grimier than I expected. Dirtier than it was meant to be.”

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285. “Nari jumps, and another bank explodes behind her, and for a moment I think our hands will not connect, because she is not tall.”

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286. “The Free Peoples of the galaxy fight with the kind of bravery that legends are spun from, that songs are sung of.”

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287. “At least our lives will have been worth dying for.”

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288. “Humans are capable of such baseless brutality.”

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289. “You will lead us through this. And I will follow you, Brother.”

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290. “I look into Aurora’s eyes, and her smile is the only heaven I have ever known.”

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291. “I didn’t realize how much I missed her until this moment. I hold my hand toward her, and she raises her own, as if to press her palm against mine.”

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292. “Oblivious in their righteousness. Firmly convinced that any problem can be solved with enough faith or good hard work or, when all else fails, bullets.”

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293. “He is a strange one, this Betraskan. A sharp-edged shell, built around a fragile heart filled with sadness.”

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294. “A part of her remembers when this boy was her everything. And maybe a part of her missed it, too?”

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295. “Vindicator has been through many battles, held together with spot-welds and prayers.”

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