Top 300 Rachel Caine Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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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252. “I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.”

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

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255. “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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256. “Maybe only the truly damaged can accept each other in the way we do.”

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257. “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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258. “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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259. “You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? – Shane.”

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260. “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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261. “Gina’s long dead, and I don’t mourn her. I feel so distant that I wouldn’t recognize the old me if I passed her on the street. I’m glad I’ve escaped a hell I had hardly even recognized when I was burning in it. Glad that I’ve pulled the kids out, too.”

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262. “Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.”

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263. “Nightmares aren’t frightening once you wake up.”

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264. “Because I’m a girl, Claire thought. She was barely able to contain the relief welling up inside her. Because we’re all stupid and insecure and think that we’re never, ever good enough.”

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265. “Touch my other son and die.”

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266. “It’s a good thing I’ve got to live with you two or I’d be putting this on YouTube later. And mocking you.”

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267. “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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268. “I don’t read Latin!” “You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the international language for smart people?”

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269. “Because when next we meet in your Christian heaven or my pagan afterlife, or some shadowy, hidden corner where those two may touch, I want to hear that you lived a long and happy life after me. That you did as you liked, and loved as you liked, and left the world shattered and empty in your wake.”

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

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271. “Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they’d need to destroy something that precious to feel full.”

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272. “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.”

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273. “She smells better,” Claire said. “And she made me cookies.”

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274. “Shane groaned. “Yo, Drama Princess, want to tone it down a little? Somewhere, Sandra Bernhardt wants her tantrum back.”

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275. “Have I mentioned how hot Michael is? Hot, hot, hot. I mean, all guitar players are crushworthy – it’s like it’s issued with the talent – but I’ve been noticing lately that he is total Hottie McHottie of Hotland. Not that I could tell him that. Luckily, he is a boy. Hence, too dense to figure out why I’m staring at his ass.”

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

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278. “Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness.”

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279. “Stripping away the humanity because that is the only way I can save myself and still watch this unrelenting horror.”

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280. “Some people you don’t walk away from.”

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281. “Don’t run I never liked fast food.”

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282. “Goliath fell to a slingshot and a stone. and the Library is a lumbering giant, dying of its own arrogance; it has to change or fall. We have the tools. The will. The knowledge.”

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283. “She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.”

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284. “Happiness, however brief, always matters.”

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285. “Jess.” Khalila drew his gaze back to her. “What is it Scholar Wolfe used to tell us? ‘Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”

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286. “Nostalgia is for normal people.”

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287. “When I’m feeling uncomfortable, I attack. It makes people step off and gives me time to find my way.”

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288. “I’m not that woman anymore. In fact, I can hardly recognize her now, that weak creature who’d submitted, pretended, smoothed over every ripple of trouble that rose.”

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289. “She was also wearing vampire bunny slippers. Myrnin had given them each a pair for Christmas, since they’d all found his so hilarious, and as Eve marched toward Claire, the rabbit slippers’ mouths flapped up and down, their red tongues flashing and plush teeth biting the ground.”

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290. “You may live in your small, dark corner and light a candle and pretend it is the sun; in time, you might even believe it. I certainly cannot stop you. But I will mourn for those you drag into the darkness along with you.”

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291. “When a strong gale constantly blows, everything bends,” Murasaki said. “And even the most honest make accommodations, and soon they are not honest at all.”

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292. “I’m fine,” I automatically tell her, because that’s what I always tell her. And myself. But it doesn’t take a paid psychologist to figure out that I’m not okay. I’m having flashbacks. Cold sweats. Nightmares. And now this.”

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293. “Faith. Faith in what? He’d believed in the Library, the ideal of it, anyway. He believed that it was doing good, and more, that it wanted to do good. But now he’d seen the dirty underside, and he couldn’t hold on to his faith much longer.”

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294. “Reset the board and keep playing.”

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295. “Rely on the internet for how yo look at the world, though, and you’ll see the worst side of people represented far too much.”

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296. “Dead doesn’t mean gone.”

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297. “The weather isn’t what you think it is. Not by a long shot.”

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298. “We allow brushes of hands without flinching, smiles without premeditation. It feels real. It feels solid. I finally begin to feel fully human.”

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299. “There was a damp crack as the flesh and bones of the dead finally failed, and the gate slammed shut.”

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300. “Because revolution rarely comes from those in charge.”

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