356 Quotes by Amie Kaufman

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.

Some people, when they lose it, they scream, they fight. I hope that would be me.

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

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

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

This time I look at him longer, properly, scanning his face for some sign of what he is thinking – some judgment, some hint of blame or guilt that I’m standing there, talking about leaving his people and mine, about abandoning our whole lives. About running away. But he only smiles at me, his fingers sliding from my cheek to twine around a floating lock of hair, making it spiral in midair.

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

Tomorrow might be worth a million yesterdays. But a tomorrow without him isn’t worth anything at all.

But love is purpose, be’shmai,” he says. “Love is what drives us to great deeds, and greater sacrifices. Without love, what is left?