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Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3) QUOTES

Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3) QUOTES

1 " A pulse. Beat-beating against her palm. Alive.

Beat by beat the bottomless whirlwind of perceptions and data and images and sensations careening through her mind—so many how can this tiny skull hold them all—began to abate in time to the rhythm of not her pulse, but his. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

2 " Because we were the good guys. We were in the right. The universe looks out for people who act with honor in furtherance of an honorable cause. It must, or we never would have gotten this far as a species.”

“We won—this little conflict and a thousand like it—because we were destined to win. The universe will allow no other outcome. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

3 " She pointed to the wreckage of one of the frigates in the distance. Half the ship had landed atop one of the towers on the edge of the city, the other half on the flatland beyond. “You didn’t…do that, did you?”

He shrugged with proper dramatic flair. “I did say I came to rescue you. They were in my way. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

4 " I’ll do whatever I can to help guarantee this plan succeeds, and I’ll try to make sure I’m in the right place at the right time.”

“The right place and time for what?”

“If I knew that, ma’am, I probably wouldn’t need to be there. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

5 " As the sky began to darken she sank down in the chair. She had just watched over a thousand Alliance soldiers die in the space of less than a minute. Yet the encounter would be considered a victory, for the enemy was vanquished. But at such a cost.

She considered what Alex had asked of her…and began to understand. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

6 " What do you want me to do? Arrest them all?”

“When you can, absolutely.”

“And when I can’t?”

“Do whatever is necessary to remove their ability to act against us—against humanity.”

“You mean kill them.”

Her expression darkened in what he sensed was sorrow, but her shoulders rose. “If that’s what it takes. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

7 " Noah gave an exaggerated eye roll. “Just out of curiosity, is this the stupidest thing you’ve ever done?”

“It wouldn’t be fair to rank them.” Caleb gunned the engine. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

8 " Caleb!” The sharp, forceful tone demanded he halt.

He found he had complied, but did not turn around. His voice sounded low and hoarse, likely because he couldn’t breathe. “Alex, I can’t. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

9 " Alone for a few precious seconds, he drew in a deep breath. He stood on a ruined street in a ruined city. Destruction stretched for kilometers in every direction, all caused by a single man for whom vengeance had devolved into madness. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

10 " He made sure his tone remained casual. He was trying to keep his son unaware of the encroaching alien invasion for as long as he could, be it another day or another hour. Once innocence was lost it was never regained.

So he took his son fishing and strolled along the river and pretended as though the galaxy wasn’t on fire. "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

11 " The fear he’d dared not voice until now—when it was all but too late—because when stacked alongside the survival of humanity his fears mustn’t matter. “Will you be the same person when you wake up? "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)

12 " We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.’ Theodore Roosevelt, "

― G.S. Jennsen , Transcendence (Aurora Rising #3; Amaranthe #3)