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These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1) QUOTES

These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes you take all my words away from me. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

2 " I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

3 " Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

4 " All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

5 " You could die tomorrow, you don't think you should kiss her today? "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

6 " I reach for her hand and wind my fingers through hers, turning them so the rain patters down onto her palm. I trace a circle there with my thumb, smoothing the water in her skin. I want to show her there's nothing to be afraid of. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

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

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

8 " Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

9 " 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 , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

10 " Beautiful? I’ve always been reasonably pretty—but enough money would turn even a cow into a catch. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

11 " 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 , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

12 " Then she smiles, and it turns out she has dimples, and it's all over. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

13 " 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 , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

14 " I’m sorry,” I whisper. My cold lips fumble the words.

“Don’t be.” His voice is a low rumble against me, the sound carrying through my bones, clearer than any of the voices I’ve been hearing. “You’ve got nothing to be sorry for. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

15 " 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 , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

16 " My heart threatening to slam its way out past my rib cage, I put my head down on my knees and focus on my breathing. Anything but the thought of what waits for me outside, the dead eyes and bloated corpses.

One. Oh, God. Two. Three. Four. Something snapped when I fell on that body. I broke something in it. It was like a wet branch. No. No. Five. Six. Seven. He would have despised me for running. Eight. What if one of those bodies was Anna’s? Oh, God. No. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Pull yourself together, Miss LaRoux. Twelve. You’re no use to anybody cowering in a broom cupboard. Thirteen. Fourteen. Don’t sell yourself short. I don’t know many soldiers who’d have done better. Fifteen. "

― Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner, , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

17 " 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 , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

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

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

19 " 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 , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

20 " But she's here, she's mine. I'm hers. "

― Amie Kaufman , These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)