Top 500 T.J. Klune Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “For the most part, he’d accepted that some people were born to be Extraordinaries, and some people were born to be medicated so they didn’t spin out of control. Fair? Not really, but Nick was learning that his brain could do things that others couldn’t. In a way, he had his own superpower, even if it was called a disorder.”

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452. “That we can find the most unexpected things when we aren’t even looking for them.”

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453. “I have other things to think about. Like tomorrow. Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?”

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454. “That’s at least a part of my happiness, I think. Knowing I’d be found.”

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455. “Oh sure, the idea of creating something new is always scary, but the act itself is cathartic. Liberating.”

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456. “We don’t interfere with death. We can’t.” “Why not?” “Because it’s always there. No matter what you do, no matter what kind of life you live, good or bad or somewhere in between, it’s always going to be waiting for you. From the moment you’re born, you’re dying.”

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457. “I would close my eyes and sleep and when I awoke, this would all have been a dream. Even though there was pain, even though I could feel everything, this would be a dream because it couldn’t be real.”

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458. “Home is where we get to be who we are.”

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459. “He still insisted I smelled like dirt and leaves and rain.”

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460. “We don’t need you because that implies you had to fix something in us. We were never broken. We want you, Wallace. Every piece. Every part. Because we’re family.”

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461. “They must have been listening,“ Art said, shrugging slightly. “The sun is shining, and maybe they just needed some encouragment. The earth is like that, you know. It needs to hear that someone is waiting for it. People are like that too, I think.”

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462. “I would be impressed except I do not find idiocy impressive.”

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463. “When we’re lost, we need help to try to find our way again.”

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464. “It’s never polite to revel in the suffering of others. What a terrible thing to do.”

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465. “And Daisy and Marcus, of course. Sitting side by side, Daisy exclaiming over his tail cast through a mouthful of biscuit.”

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466. “I hope you woke up in a strange place.”

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467. “So they can do anal but they can’t have a talk about feelings? That seems backward if you ask me.”

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468. “Be it man or machine, Victor thought, to love something meant loving the ghost inside, to be haunted by it.”

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469. “En ocasiones, tenemos que hacer cosas desagradables por nuestros seres queridos.”

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470. “You can’t be sad when you’re laughing. Mostly.”

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471. “To see children who aren’t wanted by anyone be allowed to prosper. You know as well as I do that the term orphanage is a misnomer, Mr. Baker. No one comes here looking to adopt.”

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472. “Let’s lead with that next time,” Mr. Parnassus said. “It might sound more humane.”

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473. “His slacks were too short for his legs again. His socks were purple. Linus was doomed.”

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474. “Hmm,” Gary said. “Yes. Your meeting. Your secret meeting that you never tell anyone about or where it is or why you go. That meeting.”

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475. “And besides, everyone knows Superman is in love with Batman. Even though someone decided their ship name should be SuperBat rather than the golden opportunity that is ManMan.”

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476. “She blinked owlishly at him. “Yes. I am. I’m Talia.” She bent over and picked up a small shovel that had been laying on the grass next to her. “Are you Mr. Baker? If you are, we’ve been expecting you. If not, you’re trespassing, and you should leave before I bury you here in my garden. No one would ever know because the roots would eat your entrails and bones.” She frowned again. “I think. I’ve never buried anyone before. It would be a learning experience for the both of us.”

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477. “She crossed her arms and pouted. “Nothing’s stopping us. You told me that we should always try to achieve our dreams.” “I didn’t have murder in mind when I told you that,” Hugo said dryly. “That’s because you think too small. Go big or go home.”

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478. “Today he wore blue socks with clouds on them. Linus refused to be charmed. He mostly succeeded.”

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479. “Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave but not our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes.”

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480. “There was no treasure after all! It was a lie to get you here for your party!” “Oh. I see. So the real treasure was the friendships we made along the way?” “You guys are the worst,” Lucy muttered. “The literal worst.”

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481. “I always thought unicorns were made from sunshine and rainbows and good feelings. Like you just appeared one day in a field filled with flowers and a big fat sunbeam falling all around you. And there’d be butterflies or something.” That sounded way pretty. And realistic for unicorn creation.”

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482. “I know I will miss you.”

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483. “If we worry about the little things all the time, we run the risk of missing the bigger things.” “Has anyone ever told you that you sound like a fortune cookie?” Wallace muttered.”

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484. “Wasn’t that the great answer to the mystery of life? To make the most of what you have while you have it, the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.”

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485. “No one who started a sentence with ‘well, well, well’ ever wanted something nice.”

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486. “He never wanted this moment to end. For all the love songs he’d ever listened to in his life, he hadn’t been prepared for how a moment like this could feel.”

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487. “You want mouth full of knight,” Tiggy said. “Knight take your flower and eat it.”

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488. “He thought he was going to cry again, but since he’d done it twice in as many days, he decided it was probably best if he tried to be a man for a little while. Then he thought that was sexist, so he allowed another tear to spill onto his cheek. Nick was – and always would be – invested in dismantling the patriarchy. Tumblr had taught him that.”

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489. “Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.”

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490. “Sometimes we hope for things to be a certain way, even though we know most likely it will never be. I think it’s better to temper expectations toward something realistic rather than something fantastical. It makes things easier when people let you down.”

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491. “Big man is right,” J-Bone said, coming up behind them. ‘People suck, but sometimes, they should just drown in their own suckage without our help.”

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492. “Our odds of success are low. But that has never stopped us before.”

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493. “I don’t think this is working out between us,” I told him. “You and I want different things. It’s not me, it’s you.”

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494. “But it was better to have had it for as long as he did than to never have had it at all. What a tremendous thought that was.”

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495. “Death isn’t always something to be feared. It’s not the be-all and end-all.”

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496. “Every test we ran, every simulation, ended with the same result: for the world to survive, humans could not.”

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497. “If we can fix what’s broken, we should always try.”

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498. “There are mysteries that may never be solved no matter how hard we try. And if we try too hard trying to solve them, we may miss what’s right in front of us.”

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499. “Free will is paramount, though it can get a bit messy at times... You try to make us think you understand, but how could you? You don’t have our humanity. You don’t know what it’s like to have a beating heart, to feel it crack. You don’t know what it means to be happy, what it means to grieve. Maybe some part of you is jealous of all the things we are that you can never be.”

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500. “It’s not much, but I do the best I can with what I have.” Arthur looked at him sadly. He reached out and squeezed Linus’s hand briefly before letting go. “I suppose the best is all one could ask for.”

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