Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Run first, mourn later.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

153. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

155. “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

156. “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

157. “Books represented home to him, and around every wall, the doctor’s shelves were full to bulging, a haphazard organization of varied colors of binding, sizes, shapes. There was a happy disorder about it that made Jess feel something settle inside he hadn’t even known was restless.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

166. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

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

— Rachel Caine

174. “That’s convenient.”

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

180. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

183. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

186. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

188. “Now,” said Brandons low, cold voice. “Lets not be rude eve.”

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189. “You were leaving, and you didn’t even know if I was okay.”

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190. “She hardly felt the steps down the aisle, though she did feel the weight of all eyes on her as she walked. It was over in what seemed far too little time, and then her dad handed her off to Shane, and her heart almost stopped as his eyes met hers.”

— Rachel Caine

191. “Shane: “Bro,” he said, in an injured tone, “I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren’t there to see it.” Michael: “Pics or it didn’t happen.” Shane: “Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.” – Black Dawn.”

— Rachel Caine

192. “She didn’t know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she’d ever tasted.”

— Rachel Caine

193. “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

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

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195. “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

196. “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.”

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197. “Claire: So we do nothing? Michael: We do the best nothing you’ve ever seen.”

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

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199. “One thing you learn early growing up a girl – people always talk, whatever you do,′ Glain said. ‘What bliss it must be to be male.”

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

— Rachel Caine