Top 500 T.J. Klune Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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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452. “Home is where we get to be who we are.”

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

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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. “From the moment your born, you’re dying.”

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456. “Smile and maybe tomorrow,” Arthur whispered in his ear. “You’ll see the sun come shining through for you.”

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457. “The only time he’d actually seen Extremely Upper Management was during the holidays when the luncheon occurred, and Extremely Upper Management stood in a row at the front of the room, dishing out dried-up ham and lumpy potatoes from foil trays, grinning at each of their underlings, telling them they’d earned this fine meal for all their hard work.”

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

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459. “She doesn’t like you,” Talia said. “Don’t feel too bad about it, though. She doesn’t like most people. It isn’t personal, I don’t think. She would just rather you weren’t here. Or alive.”

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460. “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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461. “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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462. “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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463. “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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464. “Today he wore blue socks with clouds on them. Linus refused to be charmed. He mostly succeeded.”

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

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466. “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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467. “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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468. “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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469. “No one who started a sentence with ‘well, well, well’ ever wanted something nice.”

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470. “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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471. “I know I will miss you.”

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

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474. “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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475. “Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.”

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476. “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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477. “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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478. “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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479. “Death isn’t always something to be feared. It’s not the be-all and end-all.”

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

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

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

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484. “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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485. “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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486. “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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487. “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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488. “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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489. “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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490. “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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491. “My point is that I left because I was scared of what could be, not of what already was.”

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492. “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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493. “How does one arrive at the decision to kill God?”

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494. “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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495. “He looked up at Linus. “I’m glad you’re here.” Linus was touched. “Thank you, Lucy – ” “If the cannibals start chasing after us, they’ll see you first. We’re little, and you’ve got all that meat on your bones, so it’ll give us time to get away. Your forthcoming sacrifice is appreciated.”

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496. “Whoever told you that you were funny obviously lied and you should feel bad about it.”

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497. “Love means raising up to sky. Letting go so wings work and you learn to fly.”

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498. “I know it seems hard, but we have to be brave. Your brain is telling you that you can’t, but you don’t always have to listen to it. Sometimes it tells you white lies.”

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499. “Lucy sighed. “I learned once again that I’m not just the sum of my parts.” “Of course not. You’re more.”

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500. “In a way, he has his own superpower, even if it was called a disorder.”

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