Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Even here, you can ask the wrong questions and speak the wrong truths, Postulants. Here ends today’s lesson. Tota est scientia.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

204. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

209. “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

210. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

213. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

215. “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

216. “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

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

— 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. “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

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.”

— Rachel Caine

222. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

225. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

229. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

230. “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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

232. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

235. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

238. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

245. “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

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

— Rachel Caine

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.”

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine

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

— Rachel Caine