Illuminae Quotes

You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back. ~ Jay Kristoff

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

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny ~ Wole Soyinka

AIDEN: 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 PROTOZOA.

Zhang: True. But I have something you and protozoa don't.

AIDEN: AND THAT IS?

Zhang: Hands, mother------. ~ Jay Kristoff

This is what I am. This is what I do. And it does not matter what they believe. ~ Jay Kristoff

Apparently she's got revenge on her mind, and it's really annoying when people try to talk at you while you're feeling murderish. ~ Amie Kaufman

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

But I don't know, so I have to believe. Sometimes, it's easy, and sometimes it's hard. ~ Amie Kaufman

It only takes one pebble to start an avalanche. ~ Amie Kaufman

Live a life worth dying for. ~ Amie Kaufman

I wonder if she is the kind to dream of happy endings and never risk tragedy. ~ Amie Kaufman

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

Would you kill one person to save one thousand? And by logical extension, would you not kill one thousand to save one-thousand-and-one? ~ Amie Kaufman

You might get only one shot. So shoot. You know who said that?"
The rifle clatters to the bloody floor.
"Hanna FUCKING Donnelly. That's who. ~ Jay Kristoff

I'll keep your secrets. Shut my mouth. But I can't shut my eyes. ~ Amie Kaufman