Top 50 D.J. MacHale Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can’t have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.”

— D.J. MacHale

2. “There are no problems, only challenges. – Uncle Press.”

— D.J. MacHale

3. “Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.”

— D.J. MacHale

4. “There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn’t lead to another. What’s important is that those roads always be kept open, for there’s no telling what wonder they might lead to.”

— D.J. MacHale

5. “I hate clowns. I’ve mentioned that, right?”

— D.J. MacHale

6. “I’m the terrorist, do what I say or I’ll terrorize you.”

— D.J. MacHale

7. “Hobey-Ho, let’s go.”

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8. “Nights were the worst. I’d try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another game of “Let’s whack Bobby in the dark!” – Bobby Pendragon, RoZ.”

— D.J. MacHale

9. “My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.”

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10. “If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?”

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11. “Riggedy riggedy white Come and spend the night We’ll play some games Some wild some tame Cause if you will, you might. By, Laberge.”

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12. “Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.”

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13. “Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.”

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14. “I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader.”

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15. “Max Rose: Vo? What kind of name is that? Spader: What kind of name is Rose? Isn’t that some kind of flower?”

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16. “Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!”

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17. “This is the way it was ment to be.”

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18. “I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.”

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19. “Whenever you look back and say “if” you know you’re in trouble. There is no such thing as “if”. The only thing that matters is what really happened.”

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20. “There were eleven of us. Each more different than the next. All with the same mindset. Things weren’t the way they were meant to be. It was our job to make things right. We were the soldiers of Halla. It was time for us to take it back.”

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21. “The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.”

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22. “Mine would be, “We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me.” -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne.”

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23. “I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!”

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24. “I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it’s sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don’t act like one – at least not all the time. I learned that it’s okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.”

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25. “Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory” Saint Dane.”

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26. “The moment. I think back on it. A lot. It’s like revisiting a favorite place. A place you wish you could go to again. But I can’t because that place doesn’t exist anymore, except in my memory.”

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27. “You want to kill me, don’t you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes.” – Saint Dane.”

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28. “When you think something’s out of reach, you back off and say you didn’t want it anyway.”

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29. “You’d better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You’re gonna fry.” -Bobby.”

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30. “We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal.”

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31. “In my few short years I learned that seeing what’s positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.”

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32. “If I weren’t already dead, I’d have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.”

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33. “Good stuff doesn’t just happen. You have to fight for it.”

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34. “I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I’d lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn’t say which I was rooting for.”

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35. “Gotta love Walmart. Where else can you buy Fritos and bullets?”

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36. “I rode my bike home and did the one thing that always helped when things weren’t going well. I read. Books were my refuge. Getting lost in a solid adventure story was the best way I knew of to turn off reality.”

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37. “Not just chubby fat, I’m talkin’ gordo.”

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38. “Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.”

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39. “What exactly is a french before it’s fried?”

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40. “You see, art makes people think. Blok didn’t want people to think. If that happened, they might have realized what was actually happening.”

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41. “It wasn’t that I didn’t trust Mark’s flying, it was just that, okay, I didn’t trust Mark’s flying.”

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42. “Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?”

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43. “Cooper’s imagination was endless, I looked at the bales of felt and saw... bales of felt. Cooper was more like my mom. He didn’t just see what was in front of him – he saw potential.”

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44. “I can’t let that happen again. The stakes are way too high. I know that, now more than ever. If there’s anything good that came from my failure on First Earth, it’s that I have now totally given myself over to being a Traveler.”

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45. “If you didn’t exist, I wouldn’t exist. Everything I’ve done is because of you!”

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46. “I’m not sure why that story came back to me while I sat huddled in Sydney’s car on the way to the lake. It happened so long ago. I guess maybe it was because it gave me the assurance that when things got bad, there were certain people you could always count on.”

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47. “Seriously. Dados bounce.” Bobby in Raven Rise.”

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48. “To write, you need to find what you love.”

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49. “When I’m on tour, I get to meet hundreds of enthusiastic readers. There is truly nothing better for an author than having someone come up to them and say, “I loved your book.” For that, I’ll take off my shoes at airport x-rays and sit cramped in an airline seat for hours with nothing to eat but a tiny bag of peanuts. It’s totally worth it. Writing.”

— D.J. MacHale

50. “It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.”

— D.J. MacHale