Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

204. “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

205. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

207. “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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208. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

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210. “And so the very institution we thought would bring the most light to the world has instead drowned it in shadows, and claimed that shadow as full sun. And we, poor blind creatures, have believed the lie. It.”

— Rachel Caine

211. “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

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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

215. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

217. “With the right books, we can change everything.”

— Rachel Caine

218. “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

219. “There’s nothing quite as scorching as a teenager’s contempt. It has a breathless sting, and it lingers for a very long time.”

— Rachel Caine

220. “Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane.”

— Rachel Caine

221. “Hello again, I said to death. I was resigned, if not ready.”

— Rachel Caine

222. “You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.”

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223. “Things happen. Things that physics and math and crap that gets measured in a lab can’t explain. People aren’t just laws and rules, Claire. They’re... sparks. Sparks of something beautiful and huge. And some sparks glow brighter.”

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224. “I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?”

— Rachel Caine

225. “She felt like there was light dripping from her fingertips. Spilling out of her toes. She felt full of light, in fact, warm buttery sunlight.”

— Rachel Caine

226. “The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them – or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia.”

— Rachel Caine

227. “Not all knowledge is books. Those out there, they’re history is stone. Men carved them. Men sweated in this sun to put them there, to make their city more beautiful. Who are you to say what’s worthy for men to see today, or tomorrow?”

— Rachel Caine

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

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229. “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

230. “Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night? Michael: Moms like me.”

— Rachel Caine

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

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232. “Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody’s staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this.”

— Rachel Caine

233. “Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.”

— Rachel Caine

234. “He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants,” Eve said. “Define crazy.”

— Rachel Caine

235. “The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.”

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236. “Mortals simply aren’t what they used to be,” he said. “A thousand years ago, you would have bartered your immortal soul for a crust of stale bread. Now I can’t even get you to gamble at all, even for your freedom.”

— Rachel Caine

237. “Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I’ll stick with being manly and heavily armed.”

— Rachel Caine

238. “One should never create tension between one’s footwear.”

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239. “Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.”

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240. “Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.”

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241. “I meant it,” I tell him. “Every bruise. Every cut. Get.”

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242. “But he was starting to realize that maybe he didn’t really have a home, except with the people he loved.”

— Rachel Caine

243. “I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.”

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244. “What in the hell is going on around here?” she yelled. “Could you guys keep it down to aircraft-carrier noise?”

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245. “I’d blurted out the question only to keep him from noticing that I was working my hands free, but the Warden behind me, some young brown-haired surfer dude, yelled a warning. “She’s getting loose!” Narc.”

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246. “Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!”

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247. “Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.”

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248. “In this whole screwed up town, you’re the only thing that’s always been right to me,” He whispered. “I love you, Claire” said Shane.”

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249. “The service passed in a blur of words she wasn’t sure she got right, and then the cool touch of the ring sliding onto her fingers, and then the warm pressure of Shane’s lips on hers.”

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250. “I’m not one of those jackasses who feel the need to strap an AR15 to their back to pick up groceries; those people live in a dystopian fantasy where they’re the heroes in a world full of threats.”

— Rachel Caine