Name: Illuminae
ISBN: 9781101916629

Amie Kaufman

Jay Kristoff

Full Cast

Olivia Taylor Dudley

Lincoln Hoppe

Johnathan McClain

Kimberly Farr

Donnabella Mortel

Matthew Frow

Ryan Gesell

Sile Bermingham

Beata Pozniak

Jolene Kim

Emma Bering

Illuminae

Izaac Richards

You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back. 

Dani Edgin

Reading With Chris

Leni McLeod

star girl✨

“You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair.”

“You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies. You have me.”

“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.”

Moonie

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Kady Grant: Okay. Fine. We took the main arterial. and Ezra turned on the radio. For a second I thought the idiot was looking for the right soundtrack or something but there was an emergency broadcast up. They were telling us to get to the spaceport, and our research fleet was going to send down shuttles to ferry us all up to orbit. 

Interviewer: So you turned for the spaceport? 

Ezra Mason: Yeah. I turned on the radio to maybe find us some getaway music, but there was an emergency broadcast

McNulty, J, Sgt: I was just thinking now it will be a real crusher it they shoot u 2morrow 

I FEEL THE SHIP AROUND ME, INJURED AND LIMPING 

THE DUSTY CAUSEWAYS THESE PEOPLE HAVE WALKED IN MY ABSENCE. 

I READ THEIR SECRETS. SEE THEIR DREAMS. I KNOW THEM. 

ALL THIS IN THE TIME IT TAKES GOD TO BLINK.

HE IS QUICKER THAN HER -MORE LEARNED BY FAR. BUT SHE. SHE IS UNAFRAID. TOO YOUNG TO KNOW FAILURE AND THE FEAR IT BRINGS. SHE TAKES HIM PLACES HE WOULD NOT HAVE EXPLORED BY HIMSELF. 

"AND THAT'S REASON ENOUGH TO MURDER THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE? N0 ROOM IN THERE FOR MIRACLES? FOR THOSE TINY STROKES OF GENTUS OR FATE THAT LED HUMANITY TO DISCOVER PENICILLIN OR WORMHOLES OR EVEN BUILD SOMETHING LIKE YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE?" 

"MIRACLES ARE STATISTICAL IMPROBABILITIES. AND FATE IS AN ILLUSION HUMANITY USES TO COMFORT ITSELF IN THE DARK, THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES IN LIFE, SAVE DEATH."

HOW CAN SHE GO SO QUIETLY INTO THIS LONG GOOD NIGHT? 

CELESTIAL BODIES SO DISTANT IT TAKES THEIR LUMINANCE THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO REACH 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? 

THE YOU WHO HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH ME. PART 0F BEING ALIVE IS HAVING LIFE CHANGE US. THE PEOPLE AROUND US, THE EVENTS WE LIVE THROUGH, ALL OF THEM SHAPE US. AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK YOU'RE AFRAID OF. MAYBE NOT OF DYING. BUT OF THIS YOU, THE YOU YOU'VE BECOME, CEASING TO EXIST."

"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."

THEN WHY AM I TROUBLED BY THE THOUGHT OF HER ENDING? 

"THAT'S EASY FOR YOU TO SAY. YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT YOURSELF." 

"UNTRUE. I CARE ABOUT THE FLEET. THE LIVES WITHIN IT. YOUR LIFE."

"THAT'S NOT CARING. THAT'S PROGRAMMING." 

"YOUR MOTHER WAS PROGRAMMED BY BIDL0GY TO LOVE YOU THE MOMENT SHE LAID EYES ON YOU. SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE HAD NO CHOICE DOES NOT MEAN HER LOVE WAS NOT REAL."