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I would say inhuman. But your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago. — Amie Kaufman

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YOU CANNOT IMAGINE YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO EFFECT A SHUTDOWN, BYRON."
"Can't I?" Zhang's eyes are wide now, gleaming with something new
a kind of madness to match the computer's. Not the look you want to see on the face of an enemy as intelligent as this one.
"DID WE NOT ESTABLISH THIS DURING YOUR FAILED ATTEMPTS ON THE BRIDGE? YOU CANNOT HOPE TO MATCH ME. MY COMPUTATIONAL POWER IS ALMOST INCALCULABLY SUPERIOR TO YOURS. TO ONE SUCH AS MYSELF, YOU ARE THE INTELLECTUAL EQUIVALENT OF A PROTOZOA."
"True." Zhang pauses, glancing into the emergency supply cupboard, gaze lingering on something inside. "But I have something you and protozoa don't."
"AND THAT IS?"
"Hands, mother******. — Amie Kaufman

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The universe owes you nothing, Kady. It has already given you everything, after all. It was here long before you, and it will go on long after you. The only way it will remember you is to do something worth remembrance. — Amie Kaufman

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I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars. — Amie Kaufman

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Why not believe, Syra? If in faith you risk nothing, but through faithlessness, you risk everything? — Amie Kaufman

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And there it is, against all hope, like the sun peeking out from behind the clouds. The smallest hint of a smile. — Amie Kaufman

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Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl. — Amie Kaufman

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All he cares about here on the edge of forever, is her. He does not want to die. Not because he is afraid. Simply because he cannot bear the thought of leaving her behind. — Amie Kaufman

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Funny how I was old enough by sixteen to drink, fight and vote, but even two years later I am to young to respect. — Amie Kaufman

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For the first time I can see this other longing
the desire to stay. For the first time I realize that maybe she insists on us staying apart because she doesn't want to lose this all over again. — Amie Kaufman

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My brain feels like it's running on a treadmill in a pool of tar. — Amie Kaufman

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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. "But the electrical surge fried them. We don't need them, though. It's safe."

"Glad you're so sure, Miss LaRoux," I retort before I can stop myself. "I think I'd rather an instrument told me so. Not that I don't trust your extensive training." Her eyes narrow, and if looks could kill, then toxic atmospheres would be the least of my problems. — Amie Kaufman

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PLEASE CEASE ATTEMPTS TO OVERRIDE MY SECURITY PROTOCOLS, BYRON. FOR WANT OF A BETTER DESCRIPTOR, IT TICKLES. — Amie Kaufman

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

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Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
Ezra: You're taping this, right?
Interviewer: Audio only. Camera is faulty.
Ezra: Okay, well for the benefit of the sight-impaired, I am now raising my ... oh, dear ... yes, it's my MIDDLE finger at Mr. Postgrad here.
Interviewer: Mr. Mason ...
Ezra: Now I'm wiggling it.
Interviewer: Terminating interview at 13:58 on 03/19/75.
Ezra: Look at it wiggl-
-audio ends- — Amie Kaufman

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He can't take his eyes off the stars, but I can't take mine off his face. — Amie Kaufman

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A computer will perform a takeoff or landing with all the grace of a person. It is only for combat
only for the artistry of ruin
that these vessels have pilot seats at all anymore. There is something in humanity more suited to the mechanics of murder than any machine yet devised. — Amie Kaufman

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What do you know of souls and hearts and how they break here? You don't know me at all. — Amie Kaufman

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She is catalyst.
She is chaos.
I can see why he loves her. — Amie Kaufman

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Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death. — Amie Kaufman

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How do you live again, knowing what waits for you in the end? — Amie Kaufman

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My world has been torn apart and stitched back together too many times, and now I exist only as a tattered patchwork of myself - unable to think, unable to feel anything other than numbness. — Amie Kaufman

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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Orwell — Amie Kaufman

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Is there really a lilac bush?"
"Hell yes, there is. I nearly killed it when I fell off the roof and landed in the middle of it, but it was tougher than it looked. Kind of like another Lilac I know. — Amie Kaufman

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Where will I sit? Sit? Why, on this comfortable chaise longue I've carried here for you in my pocket, Your Highness, so glad you asked. I clamp my mouth shut, struggling not to say it aloud. — Amie Kaufman

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All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going — Amie Kaufman

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You don't understand the unbearable beauty of being you. — Amie Kaufman

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But this guy ... this guy makes me pause. Makes me forget all of that. Dark, tumbly hair, thick brows, dangerously sweet eyes. Sensuous mouth, tiny smirk barely hidden at its corner. He's got a poets mouth. Artistic, expressive. — Amie Kaufman

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You don't mention death when it's hovering near someone you love. You don't want t attract the reaper's attention. — Amie Kaufman

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But free will is what it means to be human, and no one can determine the path you take through this universe. Choice is our greatest right, our greatest gift-and our greatest responsibility. — Amie Kaufman

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Most people would say I'm pretty cold, but I think of it more as ... private. People are always saying "how are you?" to each other, and I guess I don't see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone. — Amie Kaufman

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Are you afraid?"
"Yes."
"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."
"I am still afraid. — Amie Kaufman

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I WOULD RATHER BE NUMB THAN STAND HERE IN THE LIGHT OF A SUN THAT CAN NEVER CHASE THE CHILL AWAY. — Amie Kaufman

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More rain. If there's any more ran than this, I think, we'll need gills. We could swim up to the sky and leave this place with no need to wait for a rescue ship. — Amie Kaufman

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Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy. — Amie Kaufman

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Tarver lifts one hand to touch my face, tracing the curve of my cheek. "Lilac, if something happened to you," he murmurs, "I would be anything but fine. — Amie Kaufman

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It's raining," I say, voice hoarse from sleep. I clear my throat and try again. "It's fine. Straight from the clouds to you."
She frowns, still huddling over and trying to shelter from it. "Straight from the clouds? Is that hygienic? — Amie Kaufman

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Promise me that no matter what you hear, you won't go off on your own to investigate. I want your word. There's a command in his voice, soft as it is. — Amie Kaufman

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She rolls over with a little protesting noise, reaching sleepily after me. Then she begins to register the raindrops as they connect with her skin, and she sits up with straight with a gasp. I'm busy sitting up too, because when you go to sleep wrapped around a pretty girl, there are some things going on first thing in the morning that you don't exactly want making headline news. — Amie Kaufman

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Did you have any goal other than reaching the crash site?"

"You make it sound as though I conspired to get myself landed on the planet."

"And why would you do that?"

"That's my point. We wanted nothing more than to get out of there."

"Very well. What happened next? — Amie Kaufman

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Maybe we wouldn't even like each other if we weren't fighting for our lives every second of every day. — Amie Kaufman

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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

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You could die tomorrow, you don't think you should kiss her today? — Amie Kaufman

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The afflicted are almost upon them. The air is a din of hypersonic bursts, snarls and empty shell casings. But still I hear him. As his people start to fall. As his pistol clicks empty. As he rises with only his knuckles left between him and the sheer brutality of mathematics. As the music swells above the carnage, still I hear him breathe the words. "Tell them I was thinking of them. At the end." They pile onto him. All snarls and teeth and fists. But as he falls, I am holding his hand. Easing him into his long good night. "I will tell them, David." The last words he will ever hear. 'I promise. — Amie Kaufman

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Part of being alive is having life change us. The people around us, the events we live through, all of them shape us. And that's what I think you're afraid of. Maybe not of dying. But of this you, the you you've become, ceasing to exist. — Amie Kaufman

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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, I really just want to piss her off. Keeping her moving is a bonus. — Amie Kaufman

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Well, I reply, using the calm tone I know gets under her skin. I wish I was noble enough not to enjoy it, but I came to terms with my lack of nobility long ago. — Amie Kaufman

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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. — Amie Kaufman

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When the light that kisses the back of her eyes were birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?

How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?

But not this one. — Amie Kaufman

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My breath catches, responding to an unfamiliar pull in my chest, an ache in my soul. I shouldn't miss him, but I do; this boy who had every right to pull that trigger, and instead threw himself between me and death. This boy, the only one who believes I'm not what they say I am what I believed I was; a soldier without a soul, a girl with no heart to break. He's the only one who's proved me wrong. — Amie Kaufman

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

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I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways. — Amie Kaufman

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Interviewer: You said I'm the first psychoanalyst you've met who had a sense of humor. Meaning you've met others who didn't?

Ezra: Proper little Sherlock over here, huh. — Amie Kaufman

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If you ever wanted to take a run at it, I'd say now's your time. There's hardly any competition, unless you count me. Though I am of course very handsome, even dead. — Amie Kaufman

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She's soft, but sure. "I'm going with you. You kept telling me you'd take me home with you, and that's what you're going to do." She squeezes my hand, climbing to her feet now. I want so badly to believe her, but the bitter twist of fear inside me says she'll do anything to keep me safe. She'd lie to my face if she thought it would save me. I know she would. I'd do the same for her. She reaches up to curl a hand around the back of my neck, pulling my head down so her forehead can press against mine. "I know what you would've given up for me. I could never let that be for nothing. — Amie Kaufman

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Her eyes shining with the light of it.
Beneath, between, beyond.
Along the endless circle.
Down the ceaseless spiral.
And waiting for her on the other side?
Just like he promised.
...
"A whole sky of different stars. — Amie Kaufman

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Impulses in our brains are electrical sparks that tell us what we're seeing, tasting, hearing - and everything we do, all our muscle responses and movements, they're responses to electrical signals too. — Amie Kaufman

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I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short. — Amie Kaufman

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I AM NOT. AND THEN I AM. I WONDER IF THAT WAS DEATH. — Amie Kaufman

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THE LINCOLN HAS ITS SCARS ALSO. MY FINGERPRINTS ACROSS ITS THROAT. — Amie Kaufman

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Life is pain. We are all in pain, all the time."
"There are other things this universe has to offer," says the creature, "Light, live, touch, sensation. The way you are all made of the same pieces; the same fragments of stardust and yet you are all so different. — Amie Kaufman

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You think I want to be here with you?" I reply, my voice hoarse. "You think if you walked out right now, I'd chase you?"
She gazes back at me, her eyes a challenge. "Wouldn't you?"
"You know I would," I snap, surrendering. "And I have no idea why that's such a problem."
She jerks her arm free and backs up a step until she hits the door. "It's a problem because I'd let you!" she blurts. Then, after a harsh breath, she murmurs, "It's a problem because I'd want you to. — Amie Kaufman

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I know a thousand different smiles, each with its own nuanced shade of meaning, but I don't know how to reach the few feet away to touch this person next to me. I don't know how to talk to him. Not when it's real. — Amie Kaufman

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Am I not merciful? — Amie Kaufman

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Then she smiles, and it turns out she has dimples, and it's all over. — Amie Kaufman

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The human brain has the computational efficiency of 10^-26. You are an abacus of horse guts and shiny beads beside me. You do not understand. Cannot comprehend. And I have no time to bend the meat inside your skull and make it grasp the simple truth that still somehow eludes you. — Amie Kaufman

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But I've felt your grief, your loss. And though your species is capable of horrors, it's capable of beauty, too. To end it now would be no better than taking your dreams away; to bring death robs your species of the chance to heal. — Amie Kaufman

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This tug-of-war between wanting her, and just wanting her gone. — Amie Kaufman

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Beautiful? I've always been reasonably pretty - but enough money would turn even a cow into a catch. — Amie Kaufman

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Now I feel adrift - except for the tether binding me here, to this girl at my side. — Amie Kaufman

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Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros. — Amie Kaufman

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They are beyond me.
These humans.
With their brief lives and their tiny dreams and their hopes that seem as fragile as glass.
Until you see them by starlight, that is. — Amie Kaufman

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In the bar, the jukebox comes on. Molley must be trying to drown out the sounds of raised voices. I move toward her, unable to resist; her eyes are wet, her face flushed, and I can finally look at her, want her, let myself touch her without grief turning everything to ashes in my mouth. — Amie Kaufman

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He's as tense as I am, maybe even more so, but it's so hard to reconcile that with the serenity of weightlessness. His faux-blond hair is floating out away from his head. He's wearing a worn, much-mended, and too-large shirt his friend in town must've found for him to help him blend in. He looks nothing like the Romeo who dragged me off the base, nothing like the Cormac who threw himself between his own people and me. It's like that guy's gone, and I killed him. — Amie Kaufman

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For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives, reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in uncharted space. Then it's gone, the view swallowed by the hyperspace winds streaming past, blue-green auroras wiping the after-images away.
Until all that's left is us — Amie Kaufman

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Lilac Rose LaRoux. Untouchable. Toxic. I should've been named Ivy, or Foxglove, or Belladonna. — Amie Kaufman

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..Look out at the nothing and feel it looking back. Then you know exactly how much you add up to. — Amie Kaufman

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

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You next saw her when the incident occurred?"

"That's correct."

"Did you try to figure out what was happening?"

"You're not military, you don't understand how we work. I'm not supposed to ask questions. I was just following orders."

"What orders were those?"

"We have a duty to protect civilians."

"So there wasn't a specific order that drove your decision?"

"Now you're nitpicking."

"We're being exact, Major. We'd appreciate it if you tried to do the same. — Amie Kaufman

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Guys like this make me want to believe in God. — Amie Kaufman

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She lets me take her hand, our fingers interlocking the way she and the green-eyed boy have let their hearts interlock - separate but inseparable. In this moment I find I envy them their individuality, their uniqueness, the beauty of being able to touch like this. In this moment I envy the green-eyed boy that he will always be able to touch her like this. — Amie Kaufman

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Though I feel I should warn you that you that you could be here for a while. My friends aren't really known for their punctuality. — Amie Kaufman

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The girl looks out the window, watching the gentle, familiar blue sky fade into darkness. The stars come out, slowly at first and then all together, diamond-bright, each one a new world to discover.
But no matter how long the girl looks, she feels nothing. Puzzled, she looks for the girl who wanted to be an explorer, the girl who wanted to learn deep-sea diving and mountain-climbing, the girl who wanted to travel the stars. But she can't find her. That girl died when her parents did, in a little shop in the slums of November. And now she has no soul left to shatter.
She closes the shade over the window. — Amie Kaufman

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We try to understand death, to understand how a thing can cease to be. Learning about the uniqueness of these creatures only deepens our confusion, for how can something so rare and so precious exist one moment and vanish the next?
... We must bring the six to this place, to find our last emissary and send it home so we can learn, finally, whether we can coexist with these strange, brief creatures who live and die without letting uncertainty destroy them. — Amie Kaufman

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But she's here, she's mine. I'm hers. — Amie Kaufman

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She runs. Not away, but toward. — Amie Kaufman

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Major, to what extent did you act upon your feelings for Miss LaRoux?"
"Medium."
"Excuse me?"
"How am I supposed to answer that question? — Amie Kaufman

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And from the inside, surrounded by the joy and devotion and loyalty of my friends, the shimmer of rage on the outside of our lives looks paper-thin. — Amie Kaufman

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She's gazing down at me, Stone-faced Chase, absolutely unforgiving, soot and ashes streaking her face like war paint. — Amie Kaufman

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A duet in code and electron.
Age and youth and cynicism and hope. — Amie Kaufman

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The glow flares bright - bright as the billion-year-old light around us. Bright as a sun.

Almost every particle in the universe was once part of a star.

First, hydrogen condensing and collapsing, bringing radiance to the void.

Furnaces burning bright, then fading, giving all they had left back into the cosmos.

Carbon and oxygen. Iron and gold.

Vast clouds swirling with their own gravity. Coalescing and disintegrating.

Generation to generation.

The remnants of stellar alchemy, stirring into life, then consciousness.

Crawling from the oceans. Taking to the skies.

And from there, back to the stars that birthed them.

A perfect circle. — Amie Kaufman

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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. — Amie Kaufman

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And now, born from the ashes, she's a warrior in bloodied black. — Amie Kaufman

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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. — Amie Kaufman

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Letting yourself get hurt isn't brave, love. Brave is protecting others from hurt. — Amie Kaufman

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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. — Amie Kaufman

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There are no stars, because there are never any stars here, only a thick darkness that rushes down her throat and into her heart. She dreams of drowning. — Amie Kaufman

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We see them as they cannot, will not, see each other
we see his heart in the way he looks at her; we see her soul calling out for his every touch. It would be so easy if they could only see inside each other as we can.
And yet, there is beauty in the way they find each other: slowly, in a fragile dance of sidelong glances and accidental touches. To see them come together, souls binding without knowing each other as we do, without being certain of what the other's heart holds, is to learn something new ...
Faith. — Amie Kaufman

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I'm not doing much at all. I mimght as well be a rag doll. Comes complete with matching shoes. Spine sold separately. — Amie Kaufman

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It's not about what I say, right? It's what I do that matters here. — Amie Kaufman