Top 400 James Dashner Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “She’s the last one. Ever.”

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302. “If she tried to speak, it would all come out: Her pain, her fear. Her anger. Her tears. And then her efforts to be strong for the boy would have been for naught. So she kept it in, a dam against a raging river.”

— James Dashner

303. “Welcome to the Glade.”

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

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

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

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307. “Don’t you wish someone had done the same for us when we were in the Maze?”

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308. “Into the cargo room. Down the ramp of the hatch door, into the brightness of day. They’d barely stepped off of it when squeals pierced the air and the slab of metal began to close. Alec lifted the Berg off the ground, blue thrusters roaring. Mark was barely holding onto his mind, but he felt a sudden, unbearable sadness. He’d never see the old bear again.”

— James Dashner

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

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310. “Thomas had lived in fear and terror the past few weeks, but this was almost too much. To feel safe only to have that snatched away again.”

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311. “You’re welcome. I was just trying to help.′ Thomas felt like kicking him in the face.”

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312. “Thomas groaned at how invisible he’d become. “I love how you guys are just talking about me like i’m not here.”

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313. “Minho flexed his right arm. “If these people are really the girls Aris was hanging out with, I’ll show ’em these guns of mine and they’ll go runnin’.”

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

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315. “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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316. “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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317. “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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318. “We exist for one purpose and one purpose only: to save the world from catastrophe.”

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

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321. “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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322. “Thomas knew he had to be careful. It was strange that she only agreed with him about WICKED now that she’d gotten her memories back.”

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

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325. “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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326. “Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man.”

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327. “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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328. “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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329. “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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330. “Frypan has no reason to process or think too deeply about the returning memories. They’re not like new revelations, things to which he should respond somehow. They’ve always been there, inside him. He has already reactedto them. He has been shaped by them. He’s not learning. He’s not experiencing. He’s remembering.”

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331. “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.”

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332. “Didn’t know you could measure distance so well with nothing but you bloody eyeballs.”

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333. “There are so many things hinted at that will be fun to reveal in depth. For years, fans have made it abundantly and enthusiastically clear that they want the same thing, so now seems like the perfect time to give readers the story of how the Maze began.”

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

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335. “Mark and the old soldier were about a mile away from the village when the stench of death hit them like a fresh wave of unbearable heat.”

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336. “So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.”

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

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338. “They’d already learned it wasn’t smart to eat quickly after such a long period of fasting, but he didn’t care. If he threw it all up, he’d just enjoy eating all over again. Hopefully a fresh batch.”

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339. “Phase Two. The Scorch Trials.”

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340. “Newt was sitting on the ground with Frypan and Minho, all three looking as if they were waiting for the end of the world.”

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

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

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343. “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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344. “I’m gonnna break your faces!”

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

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346. “She grabbed his hand and intertwined their fingers, now walking alongside him, hand in hand like old lovers.”

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

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348. “I wrote the lies of my farewell with two fingers.”

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349. “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.”

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350. “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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