Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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.”

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202. “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.”

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203. “Bite me, Dracula.”

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

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

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

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

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208. “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.”

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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. “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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211. “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?”

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

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213. “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.”

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214. “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.”

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215. “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.”

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

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

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218. “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.”

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

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220. “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 –.”

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

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222. “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.”

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

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224. “The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them. Which I totally am.”

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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.”

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

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227. “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.”

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

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

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

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232. “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?”

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233. “NBD, I know, stands for no big deal.”

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

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

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

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238. “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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239. “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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240. “Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.”

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

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

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

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245. “And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.”

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246. “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.”

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247. “I have the feeling I’ve been – unpleasant.”

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

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249. “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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250. “He and his mother weren’t close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone.”

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