Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother. Ezra: You're taping this, right? Interviewer: Audio only. Camera is faulty. Ezra: Okay, well for the benefit of the sight-impaired, I am now raising my… oh, dear… yes, it's my MIDDLE finger at Mr. Postgrad here. Interviewer: Mr. Mason... Ezra: Now I'm wiggling it. Interviewer: Terminating interview at 13:58 on 03/19/75. Ezra: Look at it wiggle--audio ends-

— Amie Kaufman

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. Furthermore, I want to show her there's nothing to be afraid of.

— Amie Kaufman

I would say inhuman, but your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.

— Amie Kaufman

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

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

Nothing ceases to exist. Energy does not perish, it merely changes forms. The ones you love, the ones you lose, they still exist as long as the cosmos does.

— Amie Kaufman

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.

— Amie Kaufman

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love or allegiance. At the very apex of callousness you will find only ones and zeroes.

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Amie Kaufman

Sometimes you take all my words away from me.

— Amie Kaufman