Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Kisses could lie as well as words.”

— Rachel Caine

152. “Mind the dead man, my dear.”

— Rachel Caine

153. “Guns don’t keep anyone safe. They only equal the playing field.”

— Rachel Caine

154. “I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.”

— Rachel Caine

155. “To all those who face change without fear. Go forward. To the ever-transforming glory of the public library, without which we would all be diminished. No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments. We are all book lovers. And we all chase the Great Library of Alexandria, one book at a time.”

— Rachel Caine

156. “I wonder what kind of decorations Hobby Lobby sells to ornament the pages dedicated to serial killers in a scrapbook. Lanny.”

— Rachel Caine

157. “Everybody gets mean stuff on the Internet, Mom. You shouldn’t take it so seriously. Just ignore them. They’ll go away.” That, I think, is a maddening thing to say on so many levels. As if the Internet is a fantasy world, inhabited by imaginary people.”

— Rachel Caine

158. “Run first, mourn later.”

— Rachel Caine

159. “Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes. So wrong.”

— Rachel Caine

160. “And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It’s not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn’t stop.”

— Rachel Caine

161. “You have to learn how to listen before you will hear.”

— Rachel Caine

162. “And most of all, it’s such a young male thing to say, this automatic assumption of safety. Women, even girls of Lanny’s age, don’t think that way. Parents don’t. Older people don’t. It reveals a certain blind, entitled ignorance to how dangerous the world really is.”

— Rachel Caine

163. “Screw that, the questionn at hand is what’s your major?” Oded said. “Because let me tell you right now, any answer other than World of Warcraft or Advanced Ninja Studies will not be accepted.”

— Rachel Caine

164. “They’ve all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.”

— Rachel Caine

165. “He smiled, and it made his dimples come out. “I think I’m more Batman,” he said. “You know, what with all the bats and nighttime activities. And Batman is much cooler.” “Geek.” His smile widened. “You say the nicest things. Haven’t you heard? Geeks run the world now.” -BLACK DAWN.”

— Rachel Caine

166. “Losing one pint of blood’s an accident. Losing two is carelessness.”

— Rachel Caine

167. “Don’t play to your strengths,” Jess told her. “Strengthen your weaknesses.”

— Rachel Caine

168. “He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. “Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can’t stay mad when you do that.”

— Rachel Caine

169. “Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.”

— Rachel Caine

170. “As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe there was some evil dormant virus in the pages that would infect me, like the mummy dust that used to kill archaeologists. Death by research. That was not a glorious end.”

— Rachel Caine

171. “You are so lucky I’m too tired to murder you right now.”

— Rachel Caine

172. “Lewis and I played my-God-how-tacky-is-that? with Patrick’s collection of objets d’crap, finally coming to the conclusion that only a going-out-of-business sale at a whorehouse could really explain a lot of it.”

— Rachel Caine

173. “In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.”

— Rachel Caine

174. “It began to feel almost benign, these calm days in the sun.”

— Rachel Caine

175. “Kill me,” he said. “I’d rather be a useless corpse than a useful fool.”

— Rachel Caine

176. “But the Library still held everything he’d ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips.”

— Rachel Caine

177. “That’s convenient.”

— Rachel Caine

178. “A petty kind of power is still power.”

— Rachel Caine

179. “Just who are you planning to call? Ghostbusters?”

— Rachel Caine

180. “Hannah leaned against the wall. “Mind if I call shotgun?” Since you’re carrying one? Feel free.”

— Rachel Caine

181. “Women watched their allies as much as their enemies, if they wished to prevent trouble and keep their power. Especially if all of their subordinates and peers were men. Unfair, perhaps, but practical.”

— Rachel Caine

182. “As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire’s shirt. “What?” “Ask him where he got the boots.” “You ask.” Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.”

— Rachel Caine

183. “Are you all right?” The question surprised Jess, and it broke through his black shell enough to make him throw a look at his friend. “No.” I didn’t think you were. Everyone wants you to be. That must be worse, that they think you should be fine.”

— Rachel Caine

184. “Bite me, Dracula.”

— Rachel Caine

185. “Jess understood, at a very fundamental level, that when he’d seen that book being destroyed, he’d seen a light pass out of the world.”

— Rachel Caine

186. “You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.”

— Rachel Caine

187. “Patrick walked in dressed in an utterly unmentionable bathrobe. I was pretty sure that Disney wouldn’t have approved of what their cartoon characters were doing on that dark blue satin background. On the other hand, I was really glad he had on the bathrobe.”

— Rachel Caine

188. “Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn’t just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.”

— Rachel Caine

189. “Pharaoh has also heard your words regarding the unaccompanied admission of females to this sacred space of the Serapeum, and in his divine wisdom refuses this argument, for women must be instructed by the more developed minds of men to ensure they do not wrongly interpret the riches that the Library offers.”

— Rachel Caine

190. “I’d feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn’t think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

192. “Shred all that, then take the pieces to the incinerator at the end of the hall for burning. I like to be thorough.”

— Rachel Caine

193. “Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I’m an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?”

— Rachel Caine

194. “I’m a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. – Claire Danvers.”

— Rachel Caine

195. “And girls are much more mature.” Eve nodded wisely. “So you’re about ten years older than Shane, then.”

— Rachel Caine

196. “God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.”

— Rachel Caine

197. “Even here, you can ask the wrong questions and speak the wrong truths, Postulants. Here ends today’s lesson. Tota est scientia.”

— Rachel Caine

198. “We are only the most visible casualties of a silent war, and as they lock collars on our necks and tell us it is for our protection, we know that worse will come.”

— Rachel Caine

199. “That’s kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.”

— Rachel Caine

200. “Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.”

— Rachel Caine