Top 400 James Dashner Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Dude, you tried to slice my you-know-whats off!”

— James Dashner

102. “Welcome to the Glade.”

— James Dashner

103. “RHCP Digital, an.”

— James Dashner

104. “When I’m feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.”

— James Dashner

105. “The older man’s bushy gray eyebrows bunched up in the middle as if they were hairy bugs trying to mate.”

— James Dashner

106. “The kind of noise that made your skin crawl and made you press your hands to your ears and pray it went away.”

— James Dashner

107. “I’m gonna kill you, shuck-face!”

— James Dashner

108. “The dreams came. The memories. More vivid than ever before. As if the depth of his exhaustion had created the perfect canvas for them.”

— James Dashner

109. “Well, this is hard because I don’t know what you know.”

— James Dashner

110. “That’s where we go,” Sarah said. “We’ll just plug our noses.”

— James Dashner

111. “We are our thoughts and memories and personalities.”

— James Dashner

112. “I’m gonnna break your faces!”

— James Dashner

113. “Oh, man. I’m shucked. I’m shucked for good.”

— James Dashner

114. “Dust coated the long-dark light fixtures on the ceiling, at least half of them busted, jagged glass screwed into rusty holes.”

— James Dashner

115. “You can do this, he thought. Just make it to that Hole.”

— James Dashner

116. “That’ll be hilarious if he does all this, wakes up in some dude’s body, then gets hit by a bus the next day. I’d even go to his funeral.”

— James Dashner

117. “We can’t give up. Ever.”

— James Dashner

118. “I want to be a Runner.”

— James Dashner

119. “The world is changing.”

— James Dashner

120. “Killing another human. It wasn’t easy to accept.”

— James Dashner

121. “The Maze is a code.”

— James Dashner

122. “We have more than enough data to create a blueprint.”

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

124. “Sometimes you don’t look very hard for things you don’t believe will or can happen.”

— James Dashner

125. “I’m so scared of going crazy. I can already feel it happening. Things look weird, sound weird. Out of the blue I’ll start thinking about stuff that doesn’t make any sense. Sometimes the air around me feels... hard. I don’t even know what that means, but it’s scary. I’m definitely starting. The Flare’s taking my brain to hell.”

— James Dashner

126. “A veces el conocimiento da asco.”

— James Dashner

127. “Don’t give up, Chuck. We’re gonna solve this thing, get out of here. I’m a Runner now – I promise on my life I’ll get you back to that room of yours. Make your mom quit crying.” And Thomas meant it. He felt it burn in his heart.”

— James Dashner

128. “Rose took my nose, I suppose. And it really blows... Get it? It really blows. My nose. Taken by Rose. I suppose.”

— James Dashner

129. “What did we do differently?” “I don’t know. It’s kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.”

— James Dashner

130. “Thomas turned to see Newt there, smiling. That grin sent a wave of reassurance through Thomas, as if he were finding out the world was okay again.”

— James Dashner

131. “It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.”

— James Dashner

132. “There’s always hope. Always. You just never know what life – or death – might bring. I think we’ve all seen that the world is a little more complicated than we ever could have imagined.”

— James Dashner

133. “I’m tougher than nails. I could still kick your pony-lovin’ butt with twice this pain.” Thomas shrugged. “I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.” His stomach grumbled and gurgled.”

— James Dashner

134. “But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.”

— James Dashner

135. “If we’re gonna die, let’s do it freakin’ fighting!”

— James Dashner

136. “No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might’ve had.”

— James Dashner

137. “Minho looked at Thomas, a serious expression on his face, “if I don’t see you on the other side,” he said in a sappy voice, “remember that I love you.” Snickering at Thomas’s eye roll, he went through the doors and they closed.”

— James Dashner

138. “Keeps the Flare at bay because the virus thrives in your brain. Eats at it, destroys it. If there’s not a lot of activity, the virus weakens.”

— James Dashner

139. “Hey, buddy, you suck at suicide negotiations.”

— James Dashner

140. “She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.”

— James Dashner

141. “Are they changed because they want to go back to their old life, or is it because they’re so depressed at realizing their old life was no better than what we have now?”

— James Dashner

142. “We are evil. They are kids. We are evil. We should stop, let the Munies have the world. We are evil. We can’t play God. We can’t do this to kids.”

— James Dashner

143. “Get your runtcheeks down those stairs, right now.”

— James Dashner

144. “He didn’t care about the others anymore. The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, turn him into an animal. All he wanted was to survive, make it to that building, get inside. Live. Gain another day.”

— James Dashner

145. “She paused. That’s just my way of saying I would’ve killed you if you’d died.”

— James Dashner

146. “Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I’m tough, they’d laugh in your face.”

— James Dashner

147. “I’ve met some brave people in my life. And I’ve met some awfully stupid people. You’re one of the rare ones that are both.”

— James Dashner

148. “And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier. For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore. Like nothing would matter ever again.”

— James Dashner

149. “I’m crazy, boy. I’m a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.”

— James Dashner

150. “Your demons are always with you, Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. Don’t you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves.”

— James Dashner