Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Jason: I’m all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

54. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

58. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

60. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

61. “Normal life. Comfortable life. Not perfect, of course. Nobody had a perfect marriage, did they?”

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62. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

64. “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

65. “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

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

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67. “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?”

— Rachel Caine

68. “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!”

— Rachel Caine

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

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70. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

71. “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

72. “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.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “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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75. “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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76. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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82. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

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

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

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

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90. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

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92. “You think you’re fighting for freedom. Freedom is dangerous. Give humankind freedom, and they will inevitably fall into chaos and war, religious zealotry and senseless violence. We have kept the peace. And we’ve done it by giving the people what they need, when they need it. Not what they want. Want is nothing but blind and selfish greed.”

— Rachel Caine

93. “Tota est scientia.”

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94. “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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95. “Maybe I should, I don’t know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don’t want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.”

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96. “And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.”

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97. “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.”

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

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100. “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.”

— Rachel Caine