Most people would say I'm pretty cold, but I think of it more as… private. People are always saying "how are you?" to each other, and I guess I don't see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone.

About Amie Kaufman

Amie Kaufman is an Australian author. She has authored New York Times bestselling and internationally bestselling science fiction and fantasy for young adults. She is known for the Starbound Trilogy and Unearthed, which she co-authored with Meagan Spooner; for her series The Illuminae Files, co-authored with Jay Kristoff; and for...

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I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.

—Amie Kaufman in Illuminae

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The universe owes you nothing. It has already given you everything, after all. It was here long before you, and it will go on long after you. The only way it will remember you is to do something worth remembrance.

—Amie Kaufman in Illuminae

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Money… buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.… The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

—Fran Lebowitz

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Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

—Liane Moriarty in The Husband's Secret

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When a poor man knocks at your door and says, "I'm hungry," and your first thought is Why can't you get a job?, you've invaded his privacy. Why would you need to know why he can't get a job? He didn't come to discuss his inabilities or bad habits; he came to discuss his hunger. If you want to do something about it, feed him.

—Rabbi Manis Friedman

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

—Penn Jillette

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Most people would say I'm pretty cold, but I think of it more as…private. People are always saying "how are you?" to each other, and I guess I don't see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone.