Top 400 James Dashner Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Sorry, Tommy,” Newt muttered in his ear. “Could’ve been a bit more gentle.”

— James Dashner

302. “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

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

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

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

— James Dashner

306. “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.”

— James Dashner

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

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “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.”

— James Dashner

311. “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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312. “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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313. “His friend Chuck, stabbed in the chest, bleeding, dying as Thomas held him.”

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

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

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

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

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

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319. “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.”

— James Dashner

320. “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

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

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322. “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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323. “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

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

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325. “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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326. “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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327. “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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328. “He felt it burn in his heart.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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341. “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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342. “If you aint scared, you aint human.”

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

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345. “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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346. “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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347. “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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348. “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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349. “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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350. “You’re welcome. I was just trying to help.′ Thomas felt like kicking him in the face.”

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