356 Quotes by Amie Kaufman

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.

It may comfort you to know that your death, while astonishingly violent, will likely be mercifully swift.

To be a leader, you have to set the example. To be a leader, you have to be the kind of person you’d want to follow you.

We have failed, but I hope they will see how hard we tried.

It’s not a universal law or anything, but given the option in an empty bathroom, most folks are gonna pick the stall at the end to put maximum distance between them and anyone else who wanders in after them. It’s just good etiquette, people.

I am wondering what kind of heart beats beneath those ribs of yours.

Even the most beautiful tree in the forest-sea cannot live forever. When it dies, it decomposes, returning its life to the earth, and clearing a space for the sun, and a hundred new plants spring up from its grave. The old must make wag for the young – it is the way of life itself... there is a difference between that natural cycle of death and rebirth, and simply killing everyone in both our worlds.

Every story needs its monster, Kady, but this story will end soon. And there is no place for me in the world that awaits you after this. Some place fine and far from here. So this is where we say goodbye.

She is a dream, alive and warm in my arms, and I burn with the feel of her, the smell of her, the taste of her. She is smoke and starlight, she is blood and fire, she is a song in my veins as old as time and deep as the Void, and as I feel her surge against me, the flutter-soft touch of her tongue against mine, she almost destroys me.