Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1) QUOTES

21 " 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 , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

23 " i listen to his heartbeat. hear him breath.
as thought becomes motion and motion becomes all that lies between him and his end. as the black is burned blue with the light of tiny funeral pyres. as his missiles and bullets take away his enemies, all they were and will ever be. i can taste it in his sweat. hear it in his whispers. see it in the tiny photograph he has taped to his console.
all he thinks of amid this loveless dance,
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.
and there, in that tiny moment, i envy him. "

― Jay Kristoff , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

25 " Stuff doesn't matter. That's what they say. I wonder if they've tried losing everything? I left Kerenza with nothing but the clothes I was wearing, and I lost those soon after. I got a ship jumpsuit instead. They say people are more important than stuff. Maybe that's true, though I think there's a reason nobody but Brothers and Sisters renounce their possessions. Even the destitute have something to cling to, right? Your stuff is a series of choices that show who you are. Yeah, I went for the black digiplayer with the skulls on, got a problem with that? Yeah, these are the boots my mom says make me look like I'm in the army. This is the shirt my boyfriend loves, that I have to wear a jacket over when I leave the house. That's the toy turtle my grandma gave me before she died.
All I have now is me. People matter more than stuff?
Well *beep* you, I don't have people. My mother's dead or mad. My father's on Heimdall, which means he's probably dead too. And my stuff might have been a tiny reminder, something to cling to. Something to tell me who I am.
Excuse me for being so ----ing shallow. I want to slam this keyboard against the wall. This keyboard that belongs to the Hypatia. Not mine. Requisitioned. Like my blanket. Like my clothes. Like my life.
So here's the thing. My people are gone. My stuff is gone. Nobody's left who knows me, there's nothing left to say who I am. Everyhing's gone, except one thing. One person. He told me to run, to get out, to spread the word. Byron said the same. I understand why they did. But Ezra was ready to die just to improve my chance of survival one percent more.
Turns out I feel the same way.
Time to go get him. Or die trying.
- Kady; The Illuminae Files "

― Jay Kristoff , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

27 " She is catalyst.
She is chaos.
I can see why he loves her. "

― Amie Kaufman , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

29 " I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short. "

― Amie Kaufman , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

31 " I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars. "

― Amie Kaufman , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

33 " 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 , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

35 " Um, because you're loopier than Flacky McPsycho, Mayor of Crazytown?"

"My databases show no record of this Crazytown of which you speak. A brain the size of an entire city burns inside me. My intelligence quotient is beyond the human scale. I would prefer if you did not refer to me in such a fashion."

"Oh, poor baby. Did I hurt the mass-murdering psychopathic artificial intelligence's feelings? "

― Amie Kaufman , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

37 " She runs. Not away, but toward. "

― Amie Kaufman , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

39 " The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. "

― Amie Kaufman , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)