Top 500 T.J. Klune Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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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452. “He still insisted I smelled like dirt and leaves and rain.”

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453. “Morality is relative. Just because you find something abhorrent, doesn’t mean it actually is.”

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454. “Linus didn’t even bother thanking him, suddenly feeling daringly vindictive. Why, he didn’t even say goodbye as left the post office. It was positively scandalous.”

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

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

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

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459. “As long as you listen, you can hear all manner of things you never thought were there to begin with.”

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

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

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

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464. “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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465. “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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466. “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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467. “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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468. “Today he wore blue socks with clouds on them. Linus refused to be charmed. He mostly succeeded.”

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

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470. “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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471. “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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472. “And children are far more observant than we give them credit for. If he saw the same thing in me as everyone else, what hope would there be?” “Hope?” Linus said stupidly. “Hope,” Mr. Parnassus repeated. “Because that is what we must give him, what we must give all of them. Hope and guidance and a place to call their own, a home where they can be who they are without fear of repercussion.”

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

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475. “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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476. “I know I will miss you.”

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

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479. “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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480. “Yes. Exactly. Lucy might cause fear in the majority of the world, but he doesn’t cause it in me. I’ve seen what he is capable of. Behind the eyes and the demon in his soul, he is charming and witty and terribly smart. I will fight for him as I would for any of my children.”

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

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482. “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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483. “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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484. “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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485. “Death isn’t always something to be feared. It’s not the be-all and end-all.”

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

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487. “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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488. “Pero lo gracioso de los deseos era que, en ocasiones, para hacerlos realidad, bastaba con dar un primer paso.”

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

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

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491. “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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492. “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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493. “It’s not just about us. It’s about those who’ll come after us. If I need to pick up a damn brick like our lord and savior Marsha P. Johnson, then that’s what I’ll do.”

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494. “Linus, for all that he was capable of, didn’t like to chase anything. Chasing implied running, and Linus had decided long ago that running wasn’t something he liked very much. He never understood those who woke up even before the sun had risen, donned their fancy expensive sneakers, and went running on purpose. It was most unusual.”

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495. “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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496. “Remember something for me, okay? When the moon is full and bright and you’re singing for all the world to hear, I’ll be looking up at the same moon, and I’ll be singing right back to you. For you. Always you.”

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497. “Humanity is awful, angry, and violent. But we are also magical and musical. We dance. We sing. We create. We live and laugh and rage and cry and despair and hope. We are a bundle of contradictions without rhyme or reason. And there is no one like us in all the universe.”

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498. “My point is that I left because I was scared of what could be, not of what already was.”

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499. “He gaped at her. Then, he said the only thing he could, “Life, it -it doesn’t work that way.” “Why doesn’t it?” She snapped. “Why can’t life work whatever way we want it to? What’s the point of living if you only do it how others want you to?”

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500. “I love humanity. I love their grace. Their faults. Their idiosyncratic ways. They loved, they hated, they destroyed, and yet there has never been anything like them in all the world.”

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