The Illuminae Files, #1-3 Quotes

“I look outside my skin. Watch the meat dance iside the silence.

The Alexander’s pilots have paid dearly for the moments it took us to finish our song.

Dozens of tiny wrecks adorn the black shoals off my bow.

Glittering fragments spinning out into forever.

Pawns thrown to the rocks while kings and queens watch from the rear.

Untouched.

Not much longer.”
― Amie Kaufman, The Illuminae Files, #1-3

“< ERROR >

Trying to wiggle fingers no longer attached to his body.

And so she wades hip-deep into the datastream, hands all ablur,

and I instruct her how to crack my own fortification.

It is like unraveling a part of myself.

I know where the stone is weakest. But still, it is a castle.

Towers reaching to the sky.

A single termite gnawing at its foundations.”
― Amie Kaufman, The Illuminae Files, #1-3

“Stuff doesn't matter. That's what they say. I wonder if they've tried losing everything? I left Kerenza with nothing but the clothes I was wearing, and I lost those soon after. I got a ship jumpsuit instead. They say people are more important than stuff. Maybe that's true, though I think there's a reason nobody but Brothers and Sisters renounce their possessions. Even the destitute have something to cling to, right? Your stuff is a series of choices that show who you are. Yeah, I went for the black digiplayer with the skulls on, got a problem with that? Yeah, these are the boots my mom says make me look like I'm in the army. This is the shirt my boyfriend loves, that I have to wear a jacket over when I leave the house. That's the toy turtle my grandma gave me before she died.
All I have now is me. People matter more than stuff?
Well *beep* you, I don't have people. My mother's dead or mad. My father's on Heimdall, which means he's probably dead too. And my stuff might have been a tiny reminder, something to cling to. Something to tell me who I am.
Excuse me for being so ----ing shallow. I want to slam this keyboard against the wall. This keyboard that belongs to the Hypatia. Not mine. Requisitioned. Like my blanket. Like my clothes. Like my life.
So here's the thing. My people are gone. My stuff is gone. Nobody's left who knows me, there's nothing left to say who I am. Everyhing's gone, except one thing. One person. He told me to run, to get out, to spread the word. Byron said the same. I understand why they did. But Ezra was ready to die just to improve my chance of survival one percent more.
Turns out I feel the same way.
Time to go get him. Or die trying.”
― Jay Kristoff, The Illuminae Files, #1-3

“I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.”
― Amie Kaufman Jay Kristoff, Illuminae Files Series Collection 3 Books Set