Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?”

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

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204. “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.”

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

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206. “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.”

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207. “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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208. “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.”

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209. “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.”

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

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211. “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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212. “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.”

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213. “Shred all that, then take the pieces to the incinerator at the end of the hall for burning. I like to be thorough.”

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

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215. “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.”

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216. “You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.”

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217. “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.”

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

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

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220. “As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire’s shirt. “What?” “Ask him where he got the boots.” “You ask.” Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.”

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221. “Are you all right?” The question surprised Jess, and it broke through his black shell enough to make him throw a look at his friend. “No.” I didn’t think you were. Everyone wants you to be. That must be worse, that they think you should be fine.”

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

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

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

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

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227. “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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228. “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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229. “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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230. “Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.”

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

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

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

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236. “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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237. “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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238. “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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239. “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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240. “Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody’s staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this.”

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

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242. “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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243. “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.”

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

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246. “Touch my other son and die.”

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247. “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.”

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

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

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