Top 400 James Dashner Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “It’s like we’re mice in a maze.”

— James Dashner

252. “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

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

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

256. “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

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

— James Dashner

258. “In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good.” -Master George.”

— James Dashner

259. “After several minutes, Trina finally stopped in front of a small shack that had been boarded up with three wooden slats nailed across the door. From the outside. Someone had been imprisoned. And that someone was screaming.”

— James Dashner

260. “Watch out for the ugly man with no ears.”

— James Dashner

261. “You quit treating people like animals and maybe I’ll consider it.”

— James Dashner

262. “Let’s go get our friends,” Mark said.”

— James Dashner

263. “I’d love to see a cheeseburger right about now, though.”

— James Dashner

264. “Save all your questions till the end, children.”

— James Dashner

265. “Together, Thomas and Teresa watched, and imagined what it must be like.”

— James Dashner

266. “Shuck it,” Minho responded. “I’m tougher than nails. I could still kick your pony-lovin’ butt with twice this pain.”

— James Dashner

267. “Please, Tommy, Please.”

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

269. “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

270. “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

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

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

273. “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.”

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

277. “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.”

— James Dashner

278. “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.”

— James Dashner

279. “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.”

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

281. “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.”

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

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

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284. “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

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

— James Dashner

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

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

— James Dashner

288. “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

289. “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

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

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291. “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

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

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293. “Dude, you tried to slice my you-know-whats off!”

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294. “How can you enjoy ice cream if you never eat broccoli?”

— James Dashner

295. “Real piece of work, this guy. I’ve gotta get one of those shuck suits. Fancy stuff.”

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

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297. “We exist for one purpose and one purpose only: to save the world from catastrophe.”

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298. “RHCP Digital, an.”

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299. “I ought to come up there and break your shuck nose.”

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300. “And if all has gone according to plan, we have sent the brightest, the strongest, the toughest of our subjects to a safe place, where they can begin civilization anew while the rest of the world is driven to extinction.”

— James Dashner