Top 450 James Dashner Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “Of course we care,” Thomas answered. “But what do you want us to do about it?” “Hey, all I know is that WICKED has one directive – to find a cure. And it’s pretty obvious that’s never gonna happen. If we had their money, their resources, we could use it to really help. To protect the healthy. I thought you’d want that.” Thomas did, of course. Desperately. Gally shrugged when no one responded.”

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

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

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305. “Please, Tommy, Please.”

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

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

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

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

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310. “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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311. “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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312. “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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313. “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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314. “I was the last one to come through. Did everyone make it?” “We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,” Minho responded.”

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

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317. “It was a folder, marked as plainly as the rest, practically lost within a list of a hundred others that were empty. It was titled KILL ORDER.”

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

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

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320. “Everything we do is for a reason.”

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

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322. “Mark had always felt like she was his as a simple matter of the situation. Pretty much everyone else she’d ever known had died; he was a scrap left over for her to take, the alternative to being forever alone. But he gladly played his part, even considered himself lucky – he didn’t know what he’d do without her.”

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323. “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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324. “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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325. “He just said he likes the taste of eyeballs.” This from Frypan. “I think that qualifies as crazy.”

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

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

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330. “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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331. “He felt it burn in his heart.”

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

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

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334. “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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335. “No, Newt, I don’t understand,” Minho said, the frustration in his voice escalating. “We risked our necks to come to this place and you’re our friend and we’re taking you home. You wanna whine and cry while you go crazy, that’s fine. But you’re gonna do it with us, not with these shuck Cranks.”

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

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337. “Thomas had never heard such arrogance from her. She was either a really good actress or had started going crazy. Gained a split personality or two.”

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338. “I was in a coma for a few days, and when I woke up, speaking out to Rachel seemed the most natural thing in the world. If she hadn’t accepted it and spoken back, I’m pretty sure I would’ve lost it.”

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

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340. “Like the ugliest shanky girl I’ve ever seen,” Minho responded. “You better thank the gods above you were born a dude.” “Thanks.”

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341. “In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.”

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342. “You’re a bloody spy,” the stranger said, as calmly as if they’d just sat down for a cup of coffee together. “And to make it worse, you’re trying to steal our Berg. And strike three, you’re an ugly son of a gun, aren’t you?” “I was just going to say the same thing about you,” Mark replied. Everything had turned surreal.”

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343. “Teresa handed Thomas a really long knife, almost a sword. He couldn’t imagine where she’d been hiding these things, but she now held a short dagger in addition to her spear.”

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

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345. “That can’t be good. If something has a nickname, that means it’s big and being talked about. Not good at all.”

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346. “Except Minho – he was trying to talk to some cute girl, but her eyes were closed.”

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347. “I’d go with you,” the boy said in a far too jovial voice, “but I don’t wanna die a gruseome death.”

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

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349. “If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone’s life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I’ll point at them and laugh.”

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350. “I gotta use the bathroom,” he announced, standing up. A person even did stuff like that inside the Sleep, while your real body took care of business back in the Coffin. Everything was meant to feel real. Everything.”

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