Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

53. “Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil vampires who’d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

55. “Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.”

— Rachel Caine

56. “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

57. “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.”

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58. “Shane it came back to her in a dizzy rush how he’d stopped her on the way into this place, in the faint dawn of light ’i wnt you to promise me one thing. promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday.”

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59. “It’s a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

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

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63. “I love it when you talk dirty physics.”

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

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

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66. “Jason: I’m all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?”

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

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68. “I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.”

— Rachel Caine

69. “Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you – kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren’t there, thank God.”

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70. “Books had become a symbol of trust and libraries places of peace and stability. In all the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels of ability. It was the one place they could all be safe, p195.”

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71. “It’s not just a miracle; it’s a miracle with chocolate. Best kind.”

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72. “Maybe she’d seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.”

— Rachel Caine

73. “Never too late or too early for pancakes. If you don’t believe that, you can turn around and go, because we are never going to be friends.”

— Rachel Caine

74. “Someday, the stars will reach back.”

— Rachel Caine

75. “Because you know, I’m your best friend, but you’re just not that badass, man.”

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76. “You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.”

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77. “From Shane’s Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: “What’s the matter? You afraid you’d bite your skinny little girlfriend?” Jester laughed. “She’s already someone else’s, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He’s marked her.” Myrnin. “Shut up,” I said, and kicked him in the face.”

— Rachel Caine

78. “He hung up on her. She’d just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.”

— Rachel Caine

79. “So we must acknowledge that knowledge is ever expanding, ever changing, and so we must also change with it.”

— Rachel Caine

80. “I’m glad I’ve escaped a hell I had hardly even recognized when I was burning in it.”

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81. “Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.”

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82. “I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin.”

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83. “Perhaps one day I’d be made a saint – the patron saint of fools and lovers, if those terms were not exactly the same.”

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84. “Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.”

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85. “In bocca al lupo.” It was a phrase that the High Garda used to wish one another luck traveling through the Translation portals, a process that was painful and terrifying and dangerous in equal measure, and it seemed right about now. In the mouth of the wolf. “Crepi il lupo,” thomas responded as Jess’s cell was locked tight, and the he was gone, prodded down the hall and to the outer door and away. Kill the wolf.”

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86. “But hope was a malicious, jagged thing, all spikes and razors that churned and cut deep in his guts. Hope was a great deal like fear.”

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87. “Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?”

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88. “Define better with that guy. Not all fangs and raaaaar.”

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89. “It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not. It comes of a pitiful need to believe in one’s own worth when one is hollow within. We are all worthy. And none of us are, all at once. Once that is acknowledged, that hollow, howling space may be filled with understanding.”

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90. “Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there’s that. I will crush them on wit.”

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91. “Tota est scientia.”

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92. “When giants fought, ants were crushed.”

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93. “And by the way, showers. Look into them, Doug!”

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94. “Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?”

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95. “The destruction of Rayy taught us that calculated politics and unthinking rage – make no mistake, the two are sometimes hand in hand – are the greatest threats knowledge can face.”

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96. “No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he’d already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn’t worried about her coming after him – or, if so, what would happen when she did.”

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97. “There were a few things scarier than a bipolar vampire off his meds, but to be honest, not that many.”

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98. “I love these kids. I love them so much it steals my breath and squeezes me flat, and at the same time, it makes me feel weightless and exalted. “I love you both,” I say.”

— Rachel Caine

99. “See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.”

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100. “Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.”

— Rachel Caine