Top 400 James Dashner Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Shuck it,” Minho responded. “I’m tougher than nails. I could still kick your pony-lovin’ butt with twice this pain.”

— James Dashner

252. “The ends justify the means. It should be WICKED’s official logo. They should have a giant banner draped across the front entrance.”

— James Dashner

253. “Minho clucked his tongue. “Who cares about that? What’s this freakin’ stuff about her being the Betrayer?” “And what’s ‘Group A, Subject A1’ mean?” This was Newt, who handed over the fire extinguisher to Thomas. “Anyway, your turn to break a buggin’ door handle.”

— James Dashner

254. “Please, Tommy, Please.”

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255. “He knew he had a lot to learn – that was why he was asking questions.”

— James Dashner

256. “If he threw it all up, he’d just enjoy eating all over again. Hopefully a fresh batch.”

— James Dashner

257. “He didn’t have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.”

— James Dashner

258. “If I can tell you anything today, it is that you should never, ever believe your eyes. Or your mind, for that matter.”

— James Dashner

259. “Maybe you’ll forgive me someday.” Thomas almost hated her for sounding so reasonable.”

— James Dashner

260. “How could they be in the same room and not joke about some smell or make fun of some clueless slouch nearby? How could she ever stand in front of him and not leap at the chance to communicate telepathically?”

— James Dashner

261. “I’m inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.”

— James Dashner

262. “They’re here to get you,” Mom says through a sob. “My sweet, the love of my life, they’re here to get you.”

— James Dashner

263. “Thomas didn’t have to think. He reached out and took the cup, poured the liquid in his mouth, swallowed all of it at once. It burned like fire, searing his throat and chest as it went down; he broke into a lurching, wracking cough.”

— James Dashner

264. “It’s like we’re mice in a maze.”

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265. “It was a strange world. But Thomas was alive, and he lived.”

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266. “Everything he knew was a result of artificial intelligence. Manufactured data and memories. Programmed technology. A created life.”

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267. “Sorry, Tommy,” Newt muttered in his ear. “Could’ve been a bit more gentle.”

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268. “Yeah, we’ve heard that before. This time we mean it. We’re not going to sit back and let you treat us like rats anymore. We’re done.”

— James Dashner

269. “He heard the hiss right before a billion pounds of dynamite exploded in his shoulder. His mind said goodbye for the third time.”

— James Dashner

270. “Jorge already did – checked the Berg tracking system. They went to a city called Denver.”

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271. “Being holed up in here does wonders for making the brain do what it was made for.”

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272. “Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn’t shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind –.”

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273. “You shanks are driving me nuts. Can’t get out of the Maze, and this idea of hanging with the Grievers at their bachelor pad sounds as stupid as anything I’ve ever heard in my life. Might as well slit our wrists.”

— James Dashner

274. “And hating himself for caring after everything she’d done to him.”

— James Dashner

275. “Come get me! It’s all fading... I’m forgetting everything but you.”

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276. “And we want to make sure that something is done to salvage what’s left of this beautiful race called humans.”

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277. “Panic swelled inside him once again, almost too much to bear. But he took a deep breath and forced himself to try to accept the situation. Just go with it, he thought. You won’t figure out anything if you give in to fear.”

— James Dashner

278. “Despite everything he’d learned and witnessed firsthand, it called to him as much as hunger or thirst. A movement up on the left wall of the South Door caught his attention. Startled, he reacted quickly, looking just in time to see a flash of silver. A patch of ivy shook.”

— James Dashner

279. “Did a bloody Griever come out and ask for a snog?”

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280. “Choose right now or they both die!” Thomas opened his eyes and stepped forward. Then he pointed at Brenda and said the two most foul words to ever pass through his lips. “Kill her.”

— James Dashner

281. “It felt like his head was spinning faster than his body, and his stomach flipped over with the dizziness.”

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282. “Griever? Seriously? I thought your parents banned you from that game.”

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283. “You have a pretty nose. I really want a nose again.”

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284. “Thomas’s mouth dried up – he’d seen them face to face, remembered it all too well; he had to remind himself to breathe. The others in the room were still; no one made a sound. Fear seemed to hover in the air like a blizzard of black snow.”

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285. “This place is all fun and games.”

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286. “His friend Chuck, stabbed in the chest, bleeding, dying as Thomas held him.”

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287. “Look,” Thomas said, pointing down the line of stacks they’d formed, confused, but happy that the letters were so obvious. “It spells FLOAT and then it spells CAT.” “Float cat?” Newt asked. “Doesn’t sound like a bloody rescue code to me.”

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288. “Just dying till the day you ask me to be your Crank bride.”

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289. “They were boys, all of them – some young, some older. Thomas didn’t know what he’d expected, but seeing those faces puzzled him. They were just teenagers.”

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290. “He just said he likes the taste of eyeballs.” This from Frypan. “I think that qualifies as crazy.”

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291. “To practice – write each and every day if possible – then try to attend professional writer’s conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.”

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292. “Do books about the Holocaust make us think, “Oh well, there was nothing we could’ve done to prevent that or prevent it from happening again”? Of course not. It makes us angry and determined to stop such atrocities.”

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293. “Welcome to the Glade.”

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294. “But happiness had been ripped from their lives. Love had been ripped from their lives.”

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295. “He didn’t know how he’d make it through the next five minutes. Or the next hour. How could he possibly go through an entire day? Then sleep and start the whole thing all over again? Despair sucked at him, an empty, yawning void that threatened to pull him down into an awful abyss. A panic-laced craziness struck him. Suffusing it all, the pain.”

— James Dashner

296. “He felt it burn in his heart.”

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297. “They now knew they were being tested somehow, put through WICKED’s trials.”

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298. “They stood in a vast courtyard several times the size of a football field, surrounded by four enormous walls made of gray stone and covered in spots with thick ivy. The walls had to be hundreds of feet high and formed a perfect square around them, each side split in the exact middle by an opening as tall as the walls themselves that, from what Thomas could see, led to passages and long corridors beyond.”

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299. “When’s a door not a door? she’d said in her thick accent. When? he’d asked When it’s ajar.”

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300. “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