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This Shattered World (Starbound, #2) QUOTES

This Shattered World (Starbound, #2) QUOTES

1 " He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face. I can see the stars reflected in his eyes, can see the wonder of it in the way his mouth opens but no sound comes out. His eyes, his face—they’re beautiful. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

2 " What does it mean?” Flynn turns to gaze at me, eyes finally meeting mine.

I find myself smiling because I know exactly what it means. “It means the clouds are clearing on Avon. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

3 " 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 , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

4 " He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

5 " 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 , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

6 " 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 , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

7 " 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 , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

8 " ...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 , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

9 " We're inches apart yet worlds away. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

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

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

11 " It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago--he's choosing a world in which no one has to die. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

12 " Flynn -I'm glad you ruined me."
Her voice stabs my heart, because I recognize that tone. I've heard it before. "Don't start with the good-byes "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

13 " You’ve ruined me,” she repeats, her voice quieting a little as it catches. “You’ve ruined me—you made me wake up. And now I can’t get rid of you.” Her voice surges again as I reach out, curling my hand around her arm, her skin flushed hot under my fingers. “You won’t leave me alone. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

14 " 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 , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

15 " 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 , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

16 " His face is close to mine, his hand warm against my back through my shirt. Despite the smile on his lips, his gaze is so sad it feels like my heart is ripping in two, turning to ash as I look at him. He knows as well as I do that neither of us is leaving Avon alive if we touch down again. He’ll never see snow, and I’ll never teach him what skis are. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

17 " Flynn’s reaction is electric, for all he only moves an inch, straightening, gazed fixed on the sky overhead. Though his eyes are on the clouds, I can’t help but watch his silhouette in the darkness. The way his mouth is set, the hope and determination there—the strength of his shoulders, the energy in the way he gazes skyward. The breeze stirs his hair, and I find myself transfixed. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

18 " This time I look at him longer, properly, scanning his face for some sign of what he is thinking—some judgment, some hint of blame or guilt that I’m standing there, talking about leaving his people and mine, about abandoning our whole lives. About running away. But he only smiles at me, his fingers sliding from my cheek to twine around a floating lock of hair, making it spiral in midair. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

19 " My throat closes up then, and we’re both silent, with only the rain on the roof to break up the quiet. I study the girl I knew, another casualty of this fight, wondering how the wounds of it will mark her.

“Clear skies, Sof.” It’s all I have left to say.

“Clear skies,” she whispers. “I hope you find what you’re looking for. "

― Amie Kaufman , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)

20 " The first time Jubilee used my first name, I was betraying everyone I care for and realizing I was falling in love with the girl who killed my family. But now his name rolls off her tongue with ease. I clench my jaw and avert my eyes, unable to watch her gazing up at him any longer. "

― Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner, , This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)