Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Mind the dead man, my dear.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

153. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

156. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

159. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

162. “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

163. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

167. “That’s convenient.”

— Rachel Caine

168. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

170. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

178. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

182. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

184. “That, Claire thought, was a pretty good definition of love: needing someone even after you got what you thought you wanted.”

— Rachel Caine

185. “As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.”

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186. “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

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

— 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’m a vampire, idiot. I don’t have x-ray vision.” “Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.”

— Rachel Caine

191. “Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.”

— Rachel Caine

192. “Hell”, Shane spit in disgust. “I can’t hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her” He tossed her the bat.”

— Rachel Caine

193. “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

194. “Can we agree to a decent working rapport, here? Because I really don’t have time for this, and I can always stuff you back in the bottle and shove a tampon in the top instead of a stopper, and all the other Djinn will point and laugh –.”

— Rachel Caine

195. “Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?”

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196. “Now, whom are we here to conspire against?’ ‘Poetry,’ I said. ‘Namely, Romeo’s poetry.’ ‘Is it that bad?”

— Rachel Caine

197. “I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. “Wait a second,” I said. “So, you’re best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather.” “Yeah.” “And together, you fight crime?” I couldn’t help it. I cracked up.”

— Rachel Caine

198. “Your education or your life, Claire. I’d rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.”

— Rachel Caine

199. “And if you want to fight an old man who wants to drag the Great Library into the past, appoint a young woman who looks to the future.”

— Rachel Caine

200. “He pulled out his personal journal and pen. Jess understood the impulse, all too well, to spill out the bile and hurt into ink, where no one could see it.”

— Rachel Caine