Top 400 James Dashner Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Newt looked at the Cranks, then back at Thomas. ‘It comes and goes, man. I can’t explain it. Sometimes I can’t control myself, barely know whatI’m doing. But usually it’s just like an itch in my brain, throwing everything off-kilter just enough to nother me-make me angry.’ p247.”

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

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

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254. “I’d love to see that rat nose smashed!”

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

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256. “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.”

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257. “He shot me.” It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he’d ever said.”

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258. “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.”

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

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

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

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263. “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.”

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264. “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.”

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

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

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267. “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.”

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

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

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270. “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.”

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

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272. “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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273. “This place is all fun and games.”

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

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

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276. “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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277. “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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278. “He just said he likes the taste of eyeballs.” This from Frypan. “I think that qualifies as crazy.”

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

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

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281. “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.”

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282. “He felt it burn in his heart.”

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

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

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

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

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289. “Thomas stood there, sorting through his options. The irony wasn’t lost on him. He’d escaped WICKED only to be held at gunpoint by an average everyday city worker.”

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

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

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292. “RHCP Digital, an.”

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

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294. “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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295. “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?”

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296. “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.”

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

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298. “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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299. “You never have known when to shut your hole, have ya, Minho? Always gotta have the bloody last word.”

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300. “If you aint scared, you aint human.”

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