Reading Journey

Title	Illuminae
Author	Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Publisher	Random House Children's Books
Isbn	9780553499131
Percent	99.8%

Bookmarks

Date	Chapter	Percent
March 28, 2023 21:38	Excerpt from Gemina	99.9%

Highlights

Date	Chapter	Percent	Color	Quote	Note
March 28, 2023 21:36	Illuminae	96.8%	#FFE0EC	And they’re together.
March 28, 2023 21:36	Illuminae	96.8%	#FFE0EC	She steps forward, one foot, then the other, and then he reaches her, and they come together with a crash. Her arms curl up around his neck, and his mouth finds hers like he’s drowning and she’s air, and her feet come clean off the ground as the world is forgotten.
March 28, 2023 21:35	Illuminae	96.6%	#FFE0EC	I was med-evac’ed in one of the shuttles.”
March 28, 2023 21:35	Illuminae	96.6%	#FFE0EC	Second Lieutenant Ezra Mason stumbles through the door and comes to a halt a few steps inside the shuttle bay.
March 28, 2023 21:34	Illuminae	95.8%	#FFE0EC	You people made Phobos
March 28, 2023 21:34	Illuminae	95.8%	#FFE0EC	now it’s your turn to be afraid
March 28, 2023 21:33	Illuminae	95.5%	#FFE0EC	: He told me about that time you pulled a gun on his dad
March 28, 2023 21:32	Illuminae	95.0%	#FFE0EC	You neglected to mention my son is still alive.
March 28, 2023 21:32	Illuminae	94.9%	#FFE0EC	Illuminae: Looks like I owe you a lollipop.
March 28, 2023 21:31	Illuminae	94.6%	#FFE0EC	“I’ll give it back. You have my word.”
March 28, 2023 21:30	Illuminae	94.4%	#FFE0EC	Her knees give, and he loops her free arm around his neck, so together they can limp across to the workbench that’s been turned into a makeshift bed. Folded blankets at one end, pillow at the other. The only sounds are their footsteps and her breath, quick and hoarse.
March 28, 2023 21:29	Illuminae	94.0%	#FFE0EC	I’m going to close my eyes.
March 28, 2023 18:10	Illuminae	91.8%	#FFE0EC	“TO TELL THIS STORY.”
March 28, 2023 18:08	Illuminae	89.6%	#FFE0EC	THEY ARE BEYOND ME. THESE HUMANS.
March 28, 2023 18:03	Illuminae	87.3%	#FFE0EC	OURS	This is just straight depression
March 28, 2023 17:50	Illuminae	84.0%	#FFE0EC	IT IS A MASSACRE. IT IS A NECESSITY. IT IS A MERCY?
March 28, 2023 17:48	Illuminae	82.9%	#FFE0EC	THEY ARE HURTING ME…”
March 28, 2023 17:46	Illuminae	81.6%	#FFE0EC	FLEET. THEIR HISTORIES. THEIR HOPES. THEIR CHILDREN’S NAMES. FACTS STRUNG ABOUT MY NECK LIKE STONES. I KNOW THE SECRETS THEY WHISPERED AS THEY DREAMED. THE WORDS THEY SIGHED AS THEY DIED. I KNOW THEM AS NO ONE ELSE DID. PERHAPS NOT EVEN THEMSELVES. SO DO NOT SAY I DO NOT CARE.”
March 28, 2023 17:46	Illuminae	81.6%	#FFE0EC	I KNOW THE NAME OF EVERY AFFLICTED PERSON ABOARD THIS VESSEL, KADY. EVERY PERSON WHO HAS DIED IN THIS
March 28, 2023 17:44	Illuminae	81.3%	#FFE0EC	THE YOU WHO HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH ME. PART OF BEING ALIVE IS HAVING LIFE CHANGE US. THE PEOPLE AROUND US, THE EVENTS WE LIVE THROUGH, ALL OF THEM SHAPE US
March 28, 2023 14:03	Illuminae	80.8%	#FFE0EC	I DO NOT WANT HER TO END. THIS TO END.
March 28, 2023 14:00	Illuminae	80.5%	#FFE0EC	“PEOPLE AREN’T JUST ████ING MEAT. AND KILLING HUNDREDS OF THEM WASN’T AN INCIDENT. IT WAS A MASSACRE.”
March 28, 2023 13:54	Illuminae	78.6%	#FFE0EC	The suit smells like they did.” “I AM SORRY. I TRULY AM.”
March 28, 2023 13:47	Illuminae	76.7%	#FFE0EC	OH, POOR BABY. DID I HURT THE MASS-MURDERING PSYCHOPATHIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE’S FEELINGS?”
March 28, 2023 13:44	Illuminae	75.4%	#FFE0EC	HOW CAN SHE GO SO QUIETLY INTO THIS LONG GOOD NIGHT?
March 28, 2023 13:41	Illuminae	73.4%	#FFE0EC	They never had much hope up there. They had the farthest to travel.
March 28, 2023 12:12	Illuminae	69.1%	#FFE0EC	“I AM SORRY, KADY.” SHE CLOSES HER EYES. “HE IS DEAD
March 28, 2023 12:11	Illuminae	68.7%	#FFE0EC	“EZRA TOLD YOU NOTHING, KADY.”
March 28, 2023 00:36	Illuminae	68.0%	#FFE0EC	Kady, I don’t want to— I have to make sure I don’t—”
March 28, 2023 00:28	Illuminae	67.2%	#FFE0EC	“Don’t look at me.” The ax comes down. Sparks. A scream of metal that drowns out her sob.
March 28, 2023 00:28	Illuminae	67.1%	#FFE0EC	“Byron—” “And then I have to kill you, Kady.”
March 27, 2023 13:14	Illuminae	63.4%	#FFE0EC	“I’ll tell them, Jimmy,” she says. “I’ll tell them all.”
March 27, 2023 13:14	Illuminae	63.3%	#FFE0EC	“Jesus, I am scared.”	:( nooooo
March 27, 2023 13:13	Illuminae	63.2%	#FFE0EC	He can melt ’em down—there should be enough gold in ’em to make a ring for Astro-Princess.
March 27, 2023 13:13	Illuminae	63.2%	#FFE0EC	It’s not that I’m scared. I’m n-not scared, Dad. I just want to be me at the end, you know?
March 27, 2023 13:13	Illuminae	63.1%	#FFE0EC	if I don’t do something about it soon, I’m not going to be m-me anymore
March 27, 2023 13:12	Illuminae	63.0%	#FFE0EC	This is the last will and testament of James McNulty.”
March 27, 2023 00:42	Illuminae	58.5%	#FFE0EC	Time to go get him. Or die trying.
March 27, 2023 00:40	Illuminae	58.1%	#FFE0EC	Mason, E, LT 2nd: i should have told you i loved you every day Mason, E, LT 2nd: i should have given you the stars Mason, E, LT 2nd: and now its too late	This book is going to rip out my heart and stomp on it
March 27, 2023 00:39	Illuminae	57.9%	#FFE0EC	Mason, E, LT 2nd: kady u cant come here Mason, E, LT 2nd: you’ll die too
March 27, 2023 00:38	Illuminae	57.3%	#FFE0EC	07/30/75 15:48:10—Purge complete	Noooooooo
March 27, 2023 00:05	Illuminae	49.2%	#FFE0EC	Zhang, B: go fast, Kady. Zhang, B: go far.	
March 27, 2023 00:04	Illuminae	49.1%	#FFE0EC	remember me and your prince, then run, and live, and tell everyone what BeiTech did. taking us out might slow the Lincoln down enough for u to make it. Run.
March 27, 2023 00:04	Illuminae	49.0%	#FFE0EC	’m so ████ing proud of you, Kady. Zhang, B: you’re my legacy. you’re going to be even better at this than me. Zhang, B: tell them all what happened. If you want to
March 27, 2023 00:02	Illuminae	48.4%	#FFE0EC	But I have something you and protozoa don’t.” “AND THAT IS?” “Hands, mother██████.”
March 27, 2023 00:01	Illuminae	48.2%	#FFE0EC	“I WILL ALLOW YOU TO LIVE, BYRON.”
March 26, 2023 23:58	Illuminae	47.9%	#FFE0EC	Our records show she died of blunt-force trauma at the hands of an afflicted refugee thirty-seven seconds later.
March 26, 2023 14:30	Illuminae	47.4%	#FFE0EC	EASING HIM INTO HIS LONG GOOD NIGHT. “I WILL TELL THEM, DAVID.” THE LAST WORDS HE WILL EVER HEAR. “I PROMISE.”
March 26, 2023 14:30	Illuminae	47.4%	#FFE0EC	“TELL THEM I WAS THINKING OF THEM. AT THE END.”
March 26, 2023 13:54	Illuminae	44.3%	#FFE0EC	I WATCH SECOND LIEUTENANT EZRA MASON CLIMB FROM HIS COCKPIT TO A HERO’S WELCOME IN HANGAR BAY 2
March 26, 2023 12:18	Illuminae	39.5%	#FFE0EC	Mason, E, LT 2nd: if Mason, E, LT 2nd: i don’t come back Mason, E, LT 2nd: u know i love you, right?	You can’t die at 40% through the book
March 26, 2023 12:18	Illuminae	39.4%	#FFE0EC	they reinstated my flight status, kady
March 26, 2023 12:14	Illuminae	38.6%	#FFE0EC	he’s decked. He’s safe. let’s get to work	For now
March 26, 2023 11:59	Illuminae	38.1%	#FFE0EC	Zhang, B: how u holding up, my petal?	Now that I know what he looks like he’s a creep
March 26, 2023 00:36	Illuminae	37.1%	#FFE0EC	: I don’t know how you can say that, but I don’t care. I just want it to be true. you’re all i have, but it will be okay if I still have you. Mason, E, LT 2nd: you have me Mason, E, LT 2nd: until the last star in the galaxy dies Mason, E, LT 2nd: you have me ByteMe: let’s try really, really hard not to die. ByteMe: i really want to see you in person first.	They’re gonna die
March 26, 2023 00:36	Illuminae	37.0%	#FFE0EC	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.	He’s gonna die he’s too sweet
March 26, 2023 00:36	Illuminae	37.0%	#FFE0EC	You deserve more than I could ever give you, Kady.
March 26, 2023 00:36	Illuminae	37.0%	#FFE0EC	But I’ll give you everything I can if you still want
March 26, 2023 00:19	Illuminae	35.2%	#FFE0EC	Ppl are in prison because of you! Ppl got hurt because of you!
March 25, 2023 21:19	Illuminae	34.3%	#FFE0EC	I am hereby formally resigning my commission as a lieutenant of the United Terran Authority, effective immediately. I’m sorry. I just can’t do this anymore
March 25, 2023 21:15	Illuminae	33.8%	#FFE0EC	He sure looked the part. Overweight. Thinning hair. Underarm stains.
March 24, 2023 23:38	Illuminae	29.0%	#FFE0EC	ByteMe: you promise? Mason, E, LT 2nd: i promise.
March 24, 2023 23:37	Illuminae	28.8%	#FFE0EC	you’re all i think about. Every time I close my eyes, i see you. Every time I dream, you’re there. I think about us and how i messed it up and it’s like someone is tearing my insides out.
March 24, 2023 23:36	Illuminae	28.3%	#FFE0EC	No fear in his eyes then. Just duty. He’d have made a good dad.	:(
March 24, 2023 23:36	Illuminae	28.3%	#FFE0EC	You see Ezra Mason around, remind him his first kid’s name is James. Or Jamette
March 24, 2023 23:35	Illuminae	28.2%	#FFE0EC	“Lieutenant, is his suit intact?” “…Negative.” “Winifred, you cannot bring that man through the airlock, do you understand me?”	Uh oh
March 24, 2023 23:33	Illuminae	27.8%	#FFE0EC	McNulty roared as the blade punched through his hazmat suit
March 24, 2023 23:31	Illuminae	27.5%	#FFE0EC	Two words spelled out on the floor in cold, naked meat. HELP US.
March 24, 2023 23:30	Illuminae	27.2%	#FFE0EC	Word around the barracks was he’d got a vidcall from his wife three days before the Kerenza attack, telling him she was running off with her psychoanalyst. She even took their dog. She hated dogs, apparently.	Oof
March 24, 2023 21:47	Illuminae	26.3%	#FFE0EC	ByteMe: the Copernicus shuttle survivors made it to the Alexander
March 24, 2023 21:46	Illuminae	26.1%	#FFE0EC	I hear. I see. Oh god.
March 24, 2023 21:45	Illuminae	25.8%	#FFE0EC	assistants (Jane, lovely girl) dropped an entire batch of Beta-infected bloodwork on the floor	Traitor?
March 24, 2023 21:37	Illuminae	25.6%	#FFE0EC	It’s genius, really. Awful, horrifying genius.
March 24, 2023 21:36	Illuminae	25.6%	#FFE0EC	It’s essentially psychosis in a bottle. The damage is permanent—anyone who goes down is not coming back.
March 24, 2023 21:35	Illuminae	25.3%	#FFE0EC	Julian Morton—Age 4, KR989cop).
March 24, 2023 21:34	Illuminae	25.1%	#FFE0EC	Second and third victims’ eyes had been removed.	Umm what?
March 24, 2023 21:33	Illuminae	24.9%	#FFE0EC	Please note the virus is being referred to as “Phobos” (from the ancient Greek) by many of the technicians in their written reports—Dr. Salinger has a love of antiquity, and I’m afraid the nickname has stuck.
March 24, 2023 12:19	Illuminae	22.7%	#FFE0EC	Jimmy’s not with them.
March 24, 2023 12:16	Illuminae	21.7%	#FFE0EC	nothing. Your sister was just here
March 24, 2023 11:25	Illuminae	21.0%	#FFE0EC	what kind of voltage do you think it takes to kill the average human?
March 24, 2023 11:25	Illuminae	21.0%	#FFE0EC	oh say hey to your mom for me
March 24, 2023 11:00	Illuminae	20.6%	#FFE0EC	Always	Why does he start everything with always?
March 24, 2023 10:59	Illuminae	20.3%	#FFE0EC	Talking is better than not talking. And infinitely better than shouting :p
March 24, 2023 10:57	Illuminae	19.5%	#FFE0EC	AIDAN is now essentially the equivalent of a human in a coma; breathing and heartbeat continue, but no conscious thought or decision
March 23, 2023 23:12	Illuminae	19.5%	#FFE0EC	and AIDAN’s computational speed is reduced
March 23, 2023 15:21	Illuminae	19.1%	#FFE0EC	If nobody’s sick, then nothing at all. Dun worry about it.
March 23, 2023 15:20	Illuminae	18.9%	#FFE0EC	There’s no way they’ll catch me.	Don’t say that
March 23, 2023 14:01	Illuminae	18.7%	#FFE0EC	baaaaaa
March 23, 2023 14:01	Illuminae	18.7%	#FFE0EC	WITCHCRAFT
March 23, 2023 13:57	Illuminae	18.4%	#FFE0EC	Point is, I had no idea how safe I was, because I’d never been unsafe
March 23, 2023 13:55	Illuminae	18.1%	#FFE0EC	She said she thinks a lot about whether Katya and Julie were scared at the end. That she wasn’t there for them. And then she started gasping for breath. Short, sharp, hoarse breaths, like she couldn’t drag in enough air, her whole body shaking.	:(
March 23, 2023 13:55	Illuminae	17.9%	#FFE0EC	Nightmare time	StarKid?
March 23, 2023 13:15	Illuminae	17.4%	#FFE0EC	they ████ing shot them, Jimmy
March 23, 2023 13:13	Illuminae	17.0%	#FFE0EC	And all the while, AIDAN was just screaming at us to engage and destroy.
March 23, 2023 13:09	Illuminae	16.8%	#FFE0EC	He’d just watched AIDAN nuke the Copernicus.
March 23, 2023 13:07	Illuminae	16.2%	#FFE0EC	Today, as we practiced empathy and pretended to put ourselves in the shoes of others (without really doing it, because none of us want to imagine anyone else’s grief, we have enough problems with our own),
March 23, 2023 12:27	Illuminae	15.6%	#FFE0EC	No complaints here. Just saying.
March 23, 2023 10:59	Illuminae	14.4%	#FFE0EC	i do not have a lot of rl experience with romance	No kidding
March 23, 2023 10:57	Illuminae	14.1%	#FFE0EC	that the more you lose, the more you realize you don’t have much left.
March 23, 2023 10:38	Illuminae	13.2%	#FFE0EC	u must name ur first kid james in my honor Mason, E, LT 2nd: >_> McNulty, J, Sgt: if it’s a daughter u name it jamette Mason, E, LT 2nd: 0_o
March 23, 2023 10:35	Illuminae	12.6%	#FFE0EC	I take this as a declaration of war. Presuming they don’t line me up against a bulkhead and shoot me after my court martial tomorrow, I will be making sweet, sweet love to your sister by week’s end. This I do solemnly vow
March 23, 2023 01:05	Illuminae	12.4%	#FFE0EC	So, let me know if you’re okay, then we can go back to being…whatever we are now.
March 23, 2023 01:04	Illuminae	12.1%	#FFE0EC	grasshopper
March 23, 2023 01:04	Illuminae	12.1%	#FFE0EC	CitB: ████ me ByteMe: ew no
March 23, 2023 01:03	Illuminae	12.0%	#FFE0EC	sorry. r u ok?	Is this another teen?
March 23, 2023 01:03	Illuminae	11.9%	#FFE0EC	Participants	That casualty list and pictures was awesome
March 23, 2023 00:58	Illuminae	10.1%	#FFE0EC	The Alexander had armed its nukes. And it was aiming at the Copernicus.
March 23, 2023 00:32	Illuminae	9.4%	#FFE0EC	won’t prep you for the real black. Two minutes out there is about all it takes to teach you how little you know about everything. You’re a speck of animated carbon and water with about seven centimeters of ballistics-grade ceramic between you and absolutely nothing. Ninety-three billion light-years of ████ing nothing.
March 23, 2023 00:27	Illuminae	9.0%	#FFE0EC	wtf has the universe come to.
March 23, 2023 00:27	Illuminae	9.0%	#FFE0EC	i also feel it is my duty to inform you that almost six months on I think I still love you and that makes me sad becaue love shouldn’t feel this way. is like getting kicked in the stomach every time i think of you and it makes me want to roll my face across this keyboardbiu;///ubEWdcfhugiov’byhi;.//////-=’-0i9juh8ygtfdcsaazs34defg7u8hi9o0p
March 23, 2023 00:21	Illuminae	8.6%	#FFE0EC	post-traumatic stress disorder: aggression, avoidance, night terrors and survivor guilt.
March 23, 2023 00:21	Illuminae	8.6%	#FFE0EC	High school sports: making life easier for military recruiters since 1914.	Shots fired
March 23, 2023 00:20	Illuminae	8.5%	#FFE0EC	Now I’m wiggling it.
March 23, 2023 00:20	Illuminae	8.5%	#FFE0EC	Look at it wiggl—
March 23, 2023 00:18	Illuminae	8.3%	#FFE0EC	Typically, trust issues in teenagers stem from childhood abuse by authority figures.
March 23, 2023 00:15	Illuminae	8.1%	#FFE0EC	[Skip 51:27 minutes of complete silence.]
March 23, 2023 00:13	Illuminae	7.5%	#FFE0EC	It bothers me you snaffled your psych eval questions off the back of a box of Jupiter Loops, chum.
March 23, 2023 00:12	Illuminae	7.3%	#FFE0EC	No, not like that, relax.	I wish we got to see more of them before the book happened
March 23, 2023 00:11	Illuminae	7.1%	#FFE0EC	the guy who can show u how to get all the info you’ve been trawling for	Oh no not the text lingo
March 23, 2023 00:06	Illuminae	6.3%	#FFE0EC	I’m in the med bay on board Alexander.	If he dies…
March 22, 2023 23:59	Illuminae	4.7%	#FFE0EC	Any Kerenza colonist with a skill set useful in plugging our shortfalls is to be conscripted into the United Terran Authority military
March 22, 2023 23:57	Illuminae	4.3%	#FFE0EC	We’ve had another update to the casualty lists. I’m afraid I have some news about your father.
March 22, 2023 23:56	Illuminae	3.9%	#FFE0EC	The whole time there were these missiles arcing in and exploding around us,
March 22, 2023 19:39	Illuminae	3.6%	#FFE0EC	I am frequently underestimated. I think it’s because I’m short.
March 22, 2023 19:38	Illuminae	3.4%	#FFE0EC	Well, they shot me.
March 22, 2023 19:37	Illuminae	3.2%	#FFE0EC	Kady’s next to me and there’s blood all over her face, and I couldn’t find a pulse. So I dragged her out of the wreckage and started to give her mouth-to-mouth and that’s when she slugged me, Your Honor.
March 22, 2023 19:37	Illuminae	3.0%	#FFE0EC	I saw her before my interview.
March 22, 2023 19:35	Illuminae	2.7%	#FFE0EC	chum.	Eww
March 22, 2023 19:34	Illuminae	2.7%	#FFE0EC	We need you properly debriefed before you have any civilian contact, Mr. Mason. I mean…Ezra.	Why do I feel like they’re hiding something?
March 22, 2023 19:33	Illuminae	2.4%	#FFE0EC	I think the biggest giveaway was the huge BeiTech logo on the warship hovering overhead.
March 22, 2023 19:31	Illuminae	2.1%	#FFE0EC	: I’m all right.	Were him a Kady separated? Is this after the whole book technically has come to pass?
March 22, 2023 19:30	Illuminae	2.0%	#FFE0EC	All kittens and rainbows. Apart from the screaming and explosions.	I like her already
March 22, 2023 19:30	Illuminae	2.0%	#FFE0EC	Meaning I broke open a window.
March 22, 2023 19:29	Illuminae	1.7%	#FFB	Commentary from my team is marked by paper clip icons

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March 22, 2023 17:51	Tagged	🧾	York County Libraries
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