Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.”

— Rachel Caine

102. “Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates shoes. I wish he hated pants and shirts, too.”

— Rachel Caine

103. “He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, “I vant to drink your blood” in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen.“!”

— Rachel Caine

104. “Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.’” “Stupid.”

— Rachel Caine

105. “They came out in a dim, damp basement – a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. ‘You take me to the nicest places,’ Claire said, and sneezed.”

— Rachel Caine

106. “And knowledge is the purest form of power.” letter by Thomas Paine, p47.”

— Rachel Caine

107. “You’re just full of awesome; did you know that?”

— Rachel Caine

108. “I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.”

— Rachel Caine

109. “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

110. “When all the world is a lock, boy, you don’t make a key. You become a key.”

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111. “And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.”

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112. “Jeez, Claire. If I didn’t love you, you’d scare me.”

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113. “Books spoke mind to mind, soul to soul across the abyss of time and distance.”

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114. “The stars would be different, where he was going. But the moon would be the same.”

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115. “I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that’s just my day, not my week.”

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116. “Pardon? Why, sir, I beg your pardon, for if that was pardon, then fists are love and nooses are kisses. You speak of duty? Duty is the rope that strangles me. Piety is a bed of broken glass. And family is the company of hateful demons.”

— Rachel Caine

117. “I’m as good a Catholic as you,” Jess said. “I just don’t hold with making the world into copies of what I like.”

— Rachel Caine

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

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119. “I wonder if it was your father who made you think so little of yourself,” Wolfe said, which was not at all what Jess expected. “Having met the man, I would believe it. But, Jess: don’t believe what the demons whisper in the corners of your mind. We all have demons. You are not to be compared against any of the others, or against your own brother. You are yourself. And if I had not seen genius in you, I never would have kept you in the class. I don’t coddle mediocrity.”

— Rachel Caine

120. “Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.”

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121. “Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael’s house when they’re all gone. I’m out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne.”

— Rachel Caine

122. “Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.”

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123. “It is a terrible arrogance to think that there are any of humankind who are better or worse, or worthy or not.”

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124. “Could you maybe not admire the evil enemy quite as much, and focus on how we’re going to get out of this?”

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125. “He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.”

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126. “Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It’ll be bigge than pilates. – Eve.”

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127. “This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.”

— Rachel Caine

128. “I think we can all agree. SHINEY.”

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129. “Shane – who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.”

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130. “Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane.”

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131. “Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he’d forgotten about to his dirty laundry.”

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132. “You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.”

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133. “I’m taking off my shoes.’’ ‘‘Fine. Shoes off.’’ ‘‘And my pants.’’ ‘’Don’t push it, Claire.”

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134. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

135. “I feel safer with my old enemy beside me.”

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136. “I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.”

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137. “You’re sure he’s not a vampire?′ Claire said.‘I’ve seen movies. They’re sneaky.’ She was kidding. Eve didn’t smile.”

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138. “Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign.”

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139. “Let houses burn, as long as you are together. Nothing else matters but love.”

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140. “And change isn’t destruction. It’s just change.”

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141. “Rich men don’t look at people like us as human beings; we’re pieces they move, levers they pull to get what they want.”

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142. “Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.”

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143. “For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it.”

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144. “Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning,” Shane said. “Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid’s birthdays?”

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145. “Iced tea, in the South, is the hallmark of hospitality.”

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146. “But Sam doesn’t need to be my therapy, or my life preserver, or my rescuer. I have to be all those things for myself if a marriage between us is ever going to work.”

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147. “She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he’d lost his best- his only friend.”

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148. “Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It’s terribly wasteful.”

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149. “Books and men left the same traces where they burned. The.”

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150. “Kisses could lie as well as words.”

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