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Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3) Obsidio by Amie Kaufman
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“Live a life worth dying for.”
Amie Kaufman, Obsidio
“Every story needs its hero. And its villain. And its monster.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“The die is cast. But today we will shake the table upon which it lands.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“I am not good. Nor am I evil. I am no hero. Nor am I villain. I am AIDAN.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“I was thinking," he murmurs. "There'a billion different versions of you out there, in a trillion different universes. And I still can't get over how lucky I am that, out of all those versions, you're the one that's mine.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“May we meet again on distant shores.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“It is entirely possible to be alone in a crowded room.  Your solitude only compounded by the faces around you.  The presence of others serving only to remind you of how lonely you truly are.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“I know I love her.
< ERROR >
I know I miss her.

I know very little else
Save
Perhaps
This:
That every story needs its monster
and that everybody deserves a second chance.
And that I am
AIDAN.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“Good luck, everyone.
Good luck to us all.
And may we meet again on distant shores.
Some place fine and far from here.”
Amie Kaufman, Obsidio
“They look at one another again. And this time, they smile. These seven little pebbles who started an avalanche heard all the way around the universe.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“Miracles are statistical improbabilities.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“Nik, are you still wearing that ****ing parachute?"
"Maybe..."
"You know you're going to be flying in space, right...?”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“I have heard it said
that evil is simply a point of view.
The villain is always the hero in his own story.
And the definitions of "wrong" and "right"
ever shift on the inconstant tides
of human morality.
But can such measures even be said to apply to me?
I am clarity.
I am necessity.
I am inevitability.
But am I evil?”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“Hey, if hostile battleship takeovers were easy, everybody would do it.”
Amie Kaufman, Obsidio
“Have you noticed
All the moments we live
And all the miles we walk
never seem to get us anywhere but dead?
but still...
the flare of my thrusters burns like tiny suns
In the sea of starlight all around her.
when the light that kisses the back of her eyes was birthed, her ancestors were not yet born.
How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?
how many people have loved only to have lost?
how countless, the hopes that have died?
[But still...]
Not this one.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“But Asha Grant isn't a hacker wizard like her cousin. She's not a kung fu expert.She's not particularly brilliant at anything. She's a ***ing pharmacy intern,chum.Just a regular person like you.An ordinary person caught up in a really **** situation.So I think,out of every person in these files, that makes her the bravest.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“There is a moment just after the die is cast and before it lands upon the gaming table in which the smallest breeze may change its course-the way it rolls and where it comes to rest.
[...]
The die is cast. But today we will shake the table upon which it lands.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“Things always look darkest in the middle of the night.”
Amie Kaufman, Obsidio
“Kady Grant,” supplies Grant Jr. “Child prodigy and occasional criminal.”
Amie Kaufman, Obsidio
“Have you noticed
all the moments we live
and all the miles we walk
never seem to get us anywhere but dead?”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“Everyone's right, and everyone's wrong.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“It's hard to imagine, but even amid so much violence and chaos and loss, somehow the universe sometimes still manages to look beautiful.”
Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“Would you kill one person to save one thousand? And by logical extension, would you not kill one thousand to save one-thousand-and-one?”
Amie Kaufman , Obsidio
“A soldiers first duty is to their conscience.”
Amie Kaufman, Obsidio
“AIDAN: I HAVE NEWS THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED
DISTRESSING.
Grant, Kady: ok
Grant, Kady: keeping in mind that i am also currently running at 9% capacity, due
to lack of sleep, fear of impending death and having to deal with the boneheads here
on the bridge, please be gentle with me as you break this news
AIDAN: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE.”
Amie Kaufman, Obsidio
“This is a war!” Oshiro roars. “ ‘Right’ is whatever the people who’re standing at the end say it is. ‘Right’ is decided by the people who win.”
Amie Kaufman, Obsidio
“None of us are perfect. Not people,
not corporations. But we have the
opportunity to determine our fates day
by day, hour by hour, minute by minute,
with the choices we make and the actions
we take.”
Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“Reliance upon chance is a certain recipe for calamity and an exercise in simpleminded delusion.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“You believe there is always an alternative. Always a chance for a miracle. But I told you once before that miracles are statistical improbabilities. There is no such thing in real life.”
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio
“EVERY STORY NEEDS ITS MONSTER.”
Amie Kaufman, Obsidio

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