Aurora Rising Quotes

“Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than any constellation in the sky?”
― Jay Kristoff, Aurora Rising

“Do moons choose the planets they orbit? Do planets choose their stars? Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than an constellation in the sky?”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Who wants to be normal when you can be interesting instead?”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“But they have not seen their sun die. Their people burn. Their world end. And they do not know, yet, that there are some breaks that cannot be fixed.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“There is no love in violence”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“The mere sight of her is water in an endless desert.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“You don't like stars?' I ask.
'No,' he says quietly, lacking his smirk for once, and staring at the floor. 'A lot of those stars actually died millions of years ago. It's just they're so far away, the light they created before they died hasn't finished reaching us yet.' He waves at the galaxy beyond the glass. 'You're looking at a sky full of ghosts.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Tomorrow is worth a million yesterdays.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Just because you're not saying it doesn't mean you're not thinking it.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“What does the name you call me mean?" I ask.
"Be'shmai?" he replies. "There . . . there is no adequate human word for it."
"What about inadequate words, then?"
His answer is very soft.
"Beloved.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Um, sir?” Finian de Seel says. “We might have a problem.” “You mean aside from you interrupting my speech? Because I’d been practicing it in my head for an hour and it was gonna be great.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“I think I'd like to be unconscious again, please.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“I didn’t know Syldrathi blushed with their ears,” Tyler muses. “I am not blushing.” “I mean, it kinda looks like you’re blushing.” “I am not blushing.” “Ooookay,” Tyler nods. “I sometimes have that effect on people, is all.” “Is your request not to punch you still in effect, sir?”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“The sound of her name is like music.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“The thing I was raised to be is acutely aware of how easy it would be to reach out and break this human boy. But the man I try to be keeps his arms folded instead.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Almost every particle in the universe was once part of a star,” she says softly. “Every atom in your body. The metal in your chair, the oxygen in your lungs, the carbon in your bones. All those atoms were forged in a cosmic furnace over a million kilometers wide, billions of light-years from here. The confluence of events that led to this moment is so remote as to be almost impossible.” She puts her hand on my shoulder. Her touch is awkward, as if she doesn’t quite know how to do it. But she squeezes gently. “Our very existence is a miracle.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“The Great Ultrasaur of Abraaxis IV couldn’t keep me away,”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“hear Kal swearing in Syldrathi, and though his tone is ice-cold, I realize he’s far more creative at cursing than I thought. “Tiir’na si maat tellanai!” (Father of many ugly and stupid children!) “Kii’ne dō all’iavesh ishi!” (Stain on the undergarments of the universe!) “Aam’na delnii!” (Friend of livestock!)”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“A warrior might be all you were raised to be, Kal," I say. "But it's not all you are.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“I cannot help but feel a grudging respect also. He thinks swiftly, this Tyler Jones. He does not rattle, and he does not hesitate. With everything on the line, he still sees clearly, and he does what it takes to win. He is a born leader.”
― Jay Kristoff, Aurora Rising

“There is no love in violence. There is. No love. In violence.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“It's the very great fortune of everything else in the Galaxy that Ultrasaurs are now almost extinct, but in the unlikely event of an encounter, traditional wisdom dictates dying quickly as the best course of action.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“His loss is like my loss.

It's a story about losing people who aren't yet gone.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Pixieboy adjusts the ridiculous little hat on his head. “I look like a fool. It is too tight. How am I supposed to fight in this?” “I dunno. Sexily?”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Hmm." I make a show of patting down my uniform, peering down my tunic. "I seem to have left the part of me that cares in my other pants.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Love is a single sun in a heaven full of stars.”
― Jay Kristoff, Aurora Rising

“Belive me, handsome, one of me is way more than you can handle."
"I think… I'm gonna be sick," Lachlan declares.
"I know the feeling," Cat sighs.
"No, seriously," he burps. "Where's the... bathroom?"
Inside said bathroom, the five of us exchange a brief, horrified glance.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“You work your whole life for a Thing, it's only natural the Thing be important to you”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“No-hopers?” I say. “You know, you’re lucky I’m such a soulless shrew. Otherwise you might be at risk of quite possibly maybe hurting my feelings.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Is it weird that this girl's don't-mess-with-me tone makes me want to tell her she can mess with me any day she wants?”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising