Amie Kaufman

“THE FIGHTERS ARE TINY. INSECTS, REALLY. BUT ANTS CAN SLAY AN ELEPHANT, IF THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM. ESPECIALLY ANTS ARMED WITH…

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

“AIDAN: The concept of fortune is nonsensical, but Kady is insisting I wish you both good luck anyway. AIDAN: So good luck,…

— Amie Kaufman

“Or else I'm dead, and I've ended up in hell after all, and it's an escape pod with Lilac LaRoux.”

— Amie Kaufman

“For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives, reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in…

— Amie Kaufman

“Because if someone had tried to save my father, I would’ve kept them hidden until the soldiers came to drag me from…

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

“All of it happening in perfect, absolute.”

— Amie Kaufman

“They engrave those callsigns on your coffin when you get X-ed out. Last thing you wanna picture when you imagine your send-off…

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

“We’re in luck. This place looks like it’s terraformed. There must be sensors for checking the air quality outside.” “There are,” she agrees.…

— Amie Kaufman

“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”

— Amie Kaufman

“Where will I sit?” Sit? Why, on this comfortable chaise longue I’ve carried here for you in my pocket, Your Highness, so…

— Amie Kaufman

“They fan out across the room, swift and surgical, the steps of this brutal ballet known by heart.”

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

“This kid ain’t cut out for this line of work. I’m not *****ing you. He might be master-class pilot material, but I’ve…

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

“Tarver lifts one hand to touch my face, tracing the curve of my cheek. “Lilac, if something happened to you,” he murmurs,…

— Amie Kaufman

“Abandon her? If only my duty or my conscience would let me. The galaxy would be better off, if you ask me.…

— Amie Kaufman

“Lilac Rose LaRoux. Untouchable. Toxic. I should've been named Ivy, or Foxglove, or Belladonna.”

— Amie Kaufman

“McNulty, J, Sgt: Mason, if u no send, I will make it my mission in life to teabag you while you sleep”

— Amie Kaufman

“Take a bullet for you twice, if I have to.”

— Amie Kaufman

“I could tell myself that I’m doing it because she’ll get back to her feet just to spite me—but the truth is,…

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

“The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if…

— Amie Kaufman