Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “We can be lonely together.”

— Rachel Caine

2. “Don’t play his game. Play yours.”

— Rachel Caine

3. “The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.”

— Rachel Caine

4. “Desperate people do desperate things. You cannot be one of them. You must be better.”

— Rachel Caine

5. “I’m still alive. And I’m still fabulous.”

— Rachel Caine

6. “In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.”

— Rachel Caine

7. “THTL – too hot to live.”

— Rachel Caine

8. “Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.”

— Rachel Caine

9. “What we have is real love, but real love is messy and complicated. How can it not be, with our history?”

— Rachel Caine

10. “People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she’s always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.”

— Rachel Caine

11. “It’s not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.”

— Rachel Caine

12. “You’d be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn’t do for love. Myrnin.”

— Rachel Caine

13. “I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.”

— Rachel Caine

14. “The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they’ll never dare to raise a hand again.”

— Rachel Caine

15. “Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.”

— Rachel Caine

16. “My dad used to say that life’s a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.”

— Rachel Caine

17. “With some enemies, it’s safer to let them destroy themselves.”

— Rachel Caine

18. “I’m insane, not forgetful.”

— Rachel Caine

19. “She was poison in a pretty bottle.”

— Rachel Caine

20. “Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.”

— Rachel Caine

21. “Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.”

— Rachel Caine

22. “Bouncing in hoppy little circles like a demented Goth bunny.”

— Rachel Caine

23. “I’m too broken to be broken anymore.”

— Rachel Caine

24. “You better check your playlist. Because you are on the wrong track.”

— Rachel Caine

25. “I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.”

— Rachel Caine

26. “Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.”

— Rachel Caine

27. “If you ask me if I’m okay again, I’m going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.”

— Rachel Caine

28. “In bocca al lupo’ ‘Crepi il lupo.”

— Rachel Caine

29. “This is a day he will remember: a good day. It’s one of those memories that will pave the way to better things for him.”

— Rachel Caine

30. “Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!”

— Rachel Caine

31. “Right. That’s the end of the line for you tonight. You’re going home, I’m seeing you safe inside, and I’m going home to hide in a closet until this blows over. I suggest you do the same.”

— Rachel Caine

32. “It’s like disco inferno up in here.”

— Rachel Caine

33. “There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.”

— Rachel Caine

34. “There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.”

— Rachel Caine

35. “Hard habit to break, friendship.”

— Rachel Caine

36. “Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they’d consider wrong. Or at least risky.”

— Rachel Caine

37. “There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.”

— Rachel Caine

38. “No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.”

— Rachel Caine

39. “An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.”

— Rachel Caine

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40. “They don’t know you’re secretly a badass?”

— Rachel Caine

41. “But the past never leaves us. It’s in every breath, every cell, every second. I know that now.”

— Rachel Caine

42. “God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.”

— Rachel Caine

43. “There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you’re no longer pursuing the same goals.”

— Rachel Caine

44. “Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.”

— Rachel Caine

45. “The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast.”

— Rachel Caine

46. “People like to say that cameras don’t lie, but they can. And when they do, everyone believes.”

— Rachel Caine

47. “We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears.”

— Rachel Caine

48. “Boys. I’d turn gay if they weren’t so sexy.”

— Rachel Caine

49. “Don’t go all unicorns pooping rainbows on us.”

— Rachel Caine

50. “Married and buried, wed and dead.”

— Rachel Caine