Top 500 T.J. Klune Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Funny how that works out, isn’t it? That we can find the most unexpected things when we aren’t even looking for them.”

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352. “We’re here now because we chose each other. In the end, it’s always been about choice.”

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353. “Everyone is a little bit sad all the time.”

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354. “His thoughts were all cerulean.”

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355. “No,” Linus said. “I will not be careful. It may not have been by your hand that he suffered, but it was by your ideals. The ideals of DICOMY. Of a registration. Of the prejudice against them. You allow it to fester, you and all the people before you who sat where you do now. You keep them segregated from everyone else because they’re different than the rest of us. People fear them because they’re taught to.”

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356. “If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”

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357. “But Linus Baker was a soft man with a heart longing for home.”

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358. “There must be no greater feeling in the world than to know that this isn’t forever.”

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359. “How can we fight prejudice if we do nothing to change it? If we allow it to fester, what’s the point?”

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360. “The world is a weird and wonderful place. Why must we try and explain it all away?”

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361. “I learned a very harsh lesson then: Sometimes wishes should never be spoken aloud as they won’t come true.”

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362. “Love is an amazing thing. It can move armies. It can destroy people. It can cause even the mightiest of us to fall to our knees in supplication. It’s terrifying and wonderful, and if you let it, it can be the greatest thing in the world.”

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363. “Home is where you feel like yourself,” Ms. Chapelwhite said, and Linus could only agree. “It’s the same for us, isn’t it, children? Home is where we get to be who we are.”

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364. “We’re a lighthouse, Nick. A beacon to help them find their way home.”

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365. “Because even the bravest of us can still be afraid sometimes, so long as we don’t let our fear become all we know.”

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366. “These children are faced with nothing but preconceived notions about who they are. And they grow up to be adults who know only the same. You said it yourself: Lucy wasn’t who you expected him to be, which means you already had decided in your head what he was. How can we fight prejudice if we do nothing to change it? If we allow it to fester, what’s the point?”

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367. “The Kid told me that he thought gay people were supposed to be classy, but then he looked me up and down and said that even nice stereotypes can be a detriment to society because I obviously wasn’t classy.”

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368. “Because as much as cats can tell about people, you can always judge a person by how they treat animals. If there is cruelty, then that person should be avoided at all costs. If there is kindness, I like to think it’s the mark of a good soul.”

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369. “Linus sighed. “I’m not trying to argue with you on this.” Arthur nodded. “Of course not. Because if we were arguing, it would mean that we were both so set in our ways, we weren’t amenable to seeing it from another side. And I know I’m not that stubborn.”

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370. “Because a designation is a gift,” Rambo said. “It’s an identity. It sets us apart from others like us. It’s unique. In all of existence, there has never been someone named Rambo before me. But even if there were, I’m the best one.”

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371. “But it’s also – we had a strange family growing up. Things weren’t always easy. For us. For others. Mistakes were made. Bad things happened. But we survived. We made it through everything. And there came a point where I wanted to be able to pass on all we learned. To let Bear see that he deserved more. To maybe have a chance to be happier than we’d ever been.”

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372. “I like being round,” Talia announced. “It means there’s more of me to love.”

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373. “We don’t always see what’s right in front of us, much less appreciate it. It’s not until we look back that we find what we should have known all along.”

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374. “Your brain is telling you that you can’t, but you don’t always have to listen to it.”

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375. “But the funny thing about hate is the razor-thin line that separates it from something else entirely.”

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376. “Mr. Parnassus arched an eyebrow. “The world is a weird and wonderful place. Why must we try and explain it all away? For our personal satisfaction?”

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377. “No. It’s not. Life rarely is. But we deal with it the best we can. And we allow ourselves to hope for the best. Because a life without hope isn’t a life lived at all.”

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

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379. “They disappeared into white sand. And beyond the white was cerulean.”

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380. “Honesty was a weapon. It could be used to stab and tear and spill blood upon the earth.”

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381. “There are times when all I can think about is marking you so everyone knows who you belong to. To carve my name into your skin so you never forget me. To hide my family away so no one can ever hurt them. I have to protect what’s mine. Richard tried to take that away from me, and I think it made it worse. I don’t think he knew that he was making it worse.”

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382. “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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383. “It’s not always about what we can or can’t have, but the work we put into it.”

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384. “All animals can talk, but people choose not to hear them. You should really work on that as a species, especially since you all seem hell bent on destroying everything you can get your hands on.”

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385. “Sometimes, things get chipped and broken, but there’s still good in them.” “Adds character, I think,” Linus said. “And allows for a reminder of a memory.”

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

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387. “Do you need a hug? I can give you a hug if you want.”

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388. “Bravery is a virtue,” Arthur said. “In the face of adversity, it separates the strong from the weak.” “Or the stupid from the smart,” Talia muttered, squeezing Linus’s hand. “Boys are dumb.”

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

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

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

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393. “Pre-Algebra it was called. That scared me, because it was already hard when it was a “pre”. What would happen when it was just Algebra without the “pre?”

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394. “You’re just not hearing what you want to hear. I know it might be hard to understand, but not everything is about you, Wallace. You have your own story. She has hers. If you’re meant to know what it is, you will.”

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395. “You keep them segregated from everyone else because they’re different than the rest of us. People fear them because they’re taught to. See something, say something. It inspires hatred.”

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396. “Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters.”

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397. “You fear what you don’t understand. You see us as chaos to the ordered world you know.”

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398. “Because all beings deserve a chance to find out what life could be when they don’t have to serve others.”

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

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

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