Top 400 James Dashner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.”

— James Dashner

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2. “Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.”

— James Dashner

3. “Kill me. If you’ve ever been my friend, kill me.”

— James Dashner

4. “Everything is going to change.”

— James Dashner

5. “It’s kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.”

— James Dashner

6. “I’m a Crank. I’m slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.”

— James Dashner

7. “One must know the problem better than the solution, or the solution becomes the problem.”

— James Dashner

8. “Maybe you should just press the button.”

— James Dashner

9. “The number one Runner rule: “Never. Stop. Running.”

— James Dashner

10. “It’s for the best. Thanks for being my friends. Goodbye.”

— James Dashner

11. “You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!”

— James Dashner

12. “Great, we’re all bloody inspired. -Newt.”

— James Dashner

13. “What would I do without you? I’d die of stress and depression before nature killed me.”

— James Dashner

14. “Sometimes what works in a book is too “in your face” when converted to the big screen and sound.”

— James Dashner

15. “What’s there to be scared about? A post-apocalyptic city with no government or security, surrounded by a desert and swarming with Cranks. I mean, come on. Don’t be a sissy.”

— James Dashner

16. “I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.”

— James Dashner

17. “The betrayal meant he couldn’t trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn’t forgive her.”

— James Dashner

18. “If you’re going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I’m pretty sure you need a girl’s brain running the show.”

— James Dashner

19. “Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?”

— James Dashner

20. “Let’s get this started, people. It won’t be long before we all lose our minds.”

— James Dashner

21. “Never give up, laugh a lot. Be good to others.”

— James Dashner

22. “The only way out is within.”

— James Dashner

23. “If you ain’t scared,” Alby said, “you ain’t human. Act any different and I’d throw you off the Cliff because it’d mean you’re a psycho.”

— James Dashner

24. “Aim high, hit low.”

— James Dashner

25. “When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.”

— James Dashner

26. “All things happen for a purpose.”

— James Dashner

27. “Now you know what bloody lurks in the Maze, my friend. Now you know this isn’t joke time. You’ve been sent to the Glade, Greenie, and we’ll be expectin’ ya to survive and help us do what we’ve been sent here to do.”

— James Dashner

28. “But the well-intended idea had gone very bad. Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man. With the residents well aware that there could be no real punishment or consequences worse than what they already faced, crime rates grew astronomically. And so the developments became havens of debauchery.”

— James Dashner

29. “You won’t figure out anything if you give in to fear.”

— James Dashner

30. “Such a display of death – how could it be considered a victory?”

— James Dashner

31. “Can’t take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can’t give up. Ever.”

— James Dashner

32. “With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.”

— James Dashner

33. “All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan. They needed more clues about the code. They needed MEMORIES. So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.”

— James Dashner

34. “Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.”

— James Dashner

35. “Nice to meet ya, shank,” the boy said. “Welcome to the Glade.”

— James Dashner

36. “What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn’t be trusted?”

— James Dashner

37. “Thank you for being my friends.”

— James Dashner

38. “Quit voting me down before you even think about what I’m saying.”

— James Dashner

39. “He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.”

— James Dashner

40. “Five feet. Four feet. Three. Two. Thomas knew he had no choice. He moved. Forward. He squeezed past the connecting rods at the last second and stepped into the Maze. The walls slammed shut behind him, the echo of its boom bouncing off the ivy-covered stone like mad laughter.”

— James Dashner

41. “Oh, I’m good. Seriously, after all these years, you’d think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.”

— James Dashner

42. “He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.”

— James Dashner

43. “I think we should take a break, fill our little tummies and drink up.”

— James Dashner

44. “I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn’t get so dark and deep.”

— James Dashner

45. “I hate you, Tommy!”

— James Dashner

46. “Next time I’ll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.”

— James Dashner

47. “Rose took my nose, I suppose.”

— James Dashner

48. “I’ve always had high ambitions and aspirations.”

— James Dashner

49. “Glad you came,” Gally said in his raspy voice. “Because the end of the world is upon us.”

— James Dashner

50. “Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don’t think I can fend for myself?”

— James Dashner