Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We can be lonely together.”

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

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8. “THTL – too hot to live.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

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

— Rachel Caine

15. “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

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

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17. “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.”

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

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

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20. “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

21. “I’m insane, not forgetful.”

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

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23. “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.”

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

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

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

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27. “I think I’d fall for you no matter what, Claire. You’re kind of awesome.”

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

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

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30. “There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom. A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.”

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31. “Oliver laughed – actually laughed.“I like this new Claire,” he said. “You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She’s interesting when she’s forthright.” Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.”

— Rachel Caine

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

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

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

— Rachel Caine

35. “What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?”

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36. “Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.”

— Rachel Caine

37. “My vampire boss, who would like to maybe be my boyfriend, just dropped in to tell me he was running away because Morganville’s too dangerous.”

— Rachel Caine

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

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

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40. “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.”

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41. “He’d been happier in abandoned places, so long as they were quiet and had enough light to read by.”

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

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43. “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.”

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44. “The Great Library may have once been a boon, but what is it today? What does it give us? It suppresses! It stifles! You, sir, do you own a book? No, sir, not a blank, filled only with what they want you to read... a real book, an original work, in the hand of the writer? The library owns our memories, yet you cannot own your own books! Why? Why do they fear it? Why do they fear to allow you the choice?”

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45. “Hard habit to break, friendship.”

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46. “Eve: She told me last! Shane: Boyfriend! Michael: Landlord! Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!”

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47. “You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon at him. He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. ‘’First off, they’re not dirty. I licked them first.”

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

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49. “You are strong in spite of him. Not because of him.”

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

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