Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.”

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202. “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

203. “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

204. “I’d feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn’t think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.”

— Rachel Caine

205. “Normal life. Comfortable life. Not perfect, of course. Nobody had a perfect marriage, did they?”

— Rachel Caine

206. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

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209. “Everybody gets mean stuff on the Internet, Mom. You shouldn’t take it so seriously. Just ignore them. They’ll go away.” That, I think, is a maddening thing to say on so many levels. As if the Internet is a fantasy world, inhabited by imaginary people.”

— Rachel Caine

210. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

212. “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

213. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

219. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

226. “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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227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

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

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231. “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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232. “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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233. “I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?”

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234. “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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235. “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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236. “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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237. “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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238. “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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239. “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

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

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

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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.”

— Rachel Caine

244. “I’ve bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.”

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

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

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

— Rachel Caine