Top 400 James Dashner Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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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302. “You never have known when to shut your hole, have ya, Minho? Always gotta have the bloody last word.”

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303. “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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304. “If you aint scared, you aint human.”

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305. “Welcome to the Glade.”

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

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307. “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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308. “He felt it burn in his heart.”

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

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310. “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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311. “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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312. “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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313. “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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314. “You’re welcome. I was just trying to help.′ Thomas felt like kicking him in the face.”

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315. “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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316. “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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317. “We are our thoughts and memories and personalities.”

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318. “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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319. “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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320. “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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321. “Well, this is hard because I don’t know what you know.”

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322. “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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323. “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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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “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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328. “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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329. “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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330. “Didn’t know you could measure distance so well with nothing but you bloody eyeballs.”

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

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

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334. “Phase Two. The Scorch Trials.”

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

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337. “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.”

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

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339. “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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340. “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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341. “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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342. “He didn’t know which was worse: that Newt seemed to be slipping already or that Minho – the one who should have been able to control himself – was acting like such a slinthead.”

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343. “The open sky in front of him was a deep purple, slowly fading into the bright blue of day, with tinges of orange from the sun on a distant, flat horizon.”

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344. “A place we’ve never looked before?” Alby asked. “What do you think we’ve been doing for two years.”

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345. “We were way more than close. Things happened. We remembered stuff. Made new memories.”

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346. “Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.”

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347. “You can do this, he thought. Just make it to that Hole.”

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348. “Another pop, this time followed by the tinkle of glass sprinkling on the floor.”

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349. “He’d escaped WICKED only to be held at gunpoint by an average everyday.”

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350. “We can’t give up. Ever.”

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