Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Hannah leaned against the wall. “Mind if I call shotgun?” Since you’re carrying one? Feel free.”

— Rachel Caine

202. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

225. “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

226. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

229. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

234. “The universe explodes, hell freezes, and Shane does something resonable.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

238. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

240. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

241. “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

242. “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

243. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

244. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

245. “It isn’t fair, or right, but it’s dreadfully human, the way we tear each other apart.”

— Rachel Caine

246. “But I’ve kept them safe from the wolves, at least: the most basic and important job of a parent, to keep her offspring from being eaten by predators. Even the ones I can’t see.”

— Rachel Caine

247. “He loped off down the hall, and she felt a pure burst of fury. Boys. Why were they always such dumbasses?”

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248. “When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it’s when you have the most to lose.”

— Rachel Caine

249. “Touch my other son and die.”

— Rachel Caine

250. “You call us book lovers, and it’s true. We are. And so are you, at heart. You believe in the power of them to change the world.”

— Rachel Caine