Top 100 Rachel Caine Quotes
#1. Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.
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#2. The saga started out a normal day - don't they all? I mean, surely one morning back there in prehistoric times a dinosaur woke up, yawned, chewed some coffee beans, and thought his day was going to be dead boring, just before a comet slammed into his neighborhood.
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#3. The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia.
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#4. You were right," she said. "You were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever.
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#5. It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin
"So not the point!" -Claire
"Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin
"You're insane." -Claire
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#6. I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy.
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#7. I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.
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#8. Parting is such sweet sorrow, according to the bards. I wouldn't know, myself. I never parted anyone." He mimed ripping someone in half, then got an odd expression on his face. "Well. Just the one time, really. Doesn't count.
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#9. You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?
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#10. I'm sorry, Eve. I love you. I'm not letting you do this."
She screamed and battered harder. "You love me? You asshole! Let me go!
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#11. Claire: So we do nothing?
Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen.
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#12. As I was smoothing on the last handful across the top of my thigh, I noticed I had company. Lewus was standing there watching me, eyes half-closed but not in the least sleepy. He'd put on his blue jeans, but nothing else ... very sexy.
I couldn't help but take in the view.
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#13. News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore," Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn't interfere with the flamethrower. "No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.
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#14. Better to run toward something than run from something.
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#15. Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?
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#16. Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.
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#17. Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth.
"Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.
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#18. Myrnin said softly. And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?
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#19. And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time.'
'That accident was not my fault.'
'You were the only one on the road, and the mailbox actually didn't leap out in front of you. No arguments. You sit in the back, too.
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#20. Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren't there, thank God.
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#21. Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do ... well, you can't. Sorry about that.
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#22. How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?"
"If I have to.
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#23. When I want to know your opinion, I'll consult your entrails.
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#24. Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.
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#25. But if these past years in Morganville have taught me anything, it's that sometimes you have to just ... jump. It's not safe. It's never safe. But sometimes you have to live dangerously.
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#26. He had on bunny slippers.
These had fangs.
They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked.
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#28. So we do nothing?
Claire We do the best nothing you've ever seen.
Michael
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#29. I think that's my new band name," Shane said. "Asshat and Nerd Girlfriend. It's got a ring to it.
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#30. I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.
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#31. I'm a vampire. I have secret powers".."Actually, your mom let me in" -Michael Glass
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#32. She's nice when it suits her. That doesn't mean she's nice.
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#33. Myrnin froze, staring at her. He really was amazing, she thought; when he had that light in his eyes, it was possible to see past the crazy behavior and clothing chaos and recognize him as just ... beautiful. The longing in his face was breathtaking.
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#34. Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.
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#35. People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.
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#36. As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.
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#38. Hess laughed. "You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are you? Not underneath."
Oh, I am mousy," she said."All this scares the hell out of me. But I don't know what else to do, sir, except try.
Even a mouse bites.
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#40. If she'd ever had any doubts that she loved him, really loved him, she knew now. It was easy to love somebody when love was happy, but when it was hard, when it meant facing things you feared ... that was different. He'd done it for her, many times. And now she had to do it for him.
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#41. I am never taking a trip with either of you ever again.' Eve said. 'Ever.'
Excellent' Shane said. 'Then next trip, we hit the strip bar.'
I have a gun, Shane,' Eve sighed.
What, you think i actually loaded yours?'
Eve flipped him off, and Claire laughed.
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#42. Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that.
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#43. Because you've got guy parts, you're automatically a better mechanic than me? I don't think so, Eve said, and bailed out of the passenger side.
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#45. With the right books, we can change everything.
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#46. Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.
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#48. Funny how physics didn't go away when you were murdered.
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#49. You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.
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#50. You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.
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#51. The unknowns wasn't full of terrors, it was full of undiscovered advantages. Better to run toward something than from something.
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#52. I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?
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#53. This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy." "I would like to think better of us," Claire said, "but yeah. You're right.
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#54. I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food.
Apparently not grammar food.
Wow.You college girls are mean.
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#55. Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks."
"Just most things.
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#56. Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini,
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#57. Myrnin was heading for Kim when she picked up a crossbow lying on a table nearby and shot him pointblank in the chest.
He staggered backward, muttered, Not again
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#58. Shane stood up when he saw her, which made her heart turn cartwheels, and he pulled out her chair. Eve and Michael shared an amused look.
"So cute," Eve said. When Shane glared, she smiled. "No, really. It is. Dude, chill.
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#59. Jealous?"
"Maybe."
"No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.
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#60. Hey, we had fun. In the sense of next to none at all, I mean. Next time, can we at least stop at a mall? May be see a movie? Avoid the mass murder of our enemies, maybe?
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#61. I've thought about it," she said. "And I'm angry, Shane. I'm really angry. After everything we've done, everything we've risked, we're expendable. And it hurts. Believe me.
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#62. Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?
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#63. There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.
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#64. Bite your tongue. My boyfriend is a rock god,baby.
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#65. You're still here. No beer. I'm not corrupting a minor."
"But you're a minor," she pointed out. "At least for beer."
"Yeah, and by the way, how much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and I'm not if I want a beer?
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#66. That is disgusting, and I will never kiss you again." "Yes, you will," he said, and proved by pressing his lips to hers. She wanted to squirm away, just to prove the point but God, she loved kissing him.
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#67. Let houses burn, as long as you are together. Nothing else matters but love.
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#68. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore.
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#69. Best to flee now, before the pitchforks and torches and scientists come calling.
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#70. Jason talking about Michael -
"Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
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#71. You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.
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#72. Right, that was awkward. Eve, you stay and ... , bake or something."
"The hell I will.
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#73. I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader.
- Claire Danvers
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#74. Hey!" Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall.
"No onions!"
"Your loss!"
"I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight!"
"Damn, girl. Harsh.
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#75. She wanted to lunge over and kiss him. Well, ew, not really, maybe a hug. Or a hanshake.
Claire about Oliver
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#76. You looked like the sexiest woman in the world."
"Well, in fairness, I am the sexiest woman in the world."
"And you're always right."
"You are so brilliant to recognize that.
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#77. That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.
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#78. 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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#79. Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.
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#80. Moi?" He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. "You must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes me jealous, by the way.
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#81. Guys aren't deep enough to need CliffsNotes.
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#83. Shane:do we have a choice
michael:dont think so
shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go get eaten.at least then i can get some sleep
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#84. You know it's desperate," she said. "Shane is going to the library.
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#85. Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much."
"Dick. That's not what you said last night."
"Bite me.
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#86. I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.
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#87. 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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#88. If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable.'
'Is he UNstable?'
'I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!'
She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that.
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#89. Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign.
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#90. Well," Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen?" They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.
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#91. I'd say over my dead body, but I think you already made that point," Michael snapped. "Thanks for the visit. Now fuck off, man.
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#92. Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment.
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#93. We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears.
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#94. The back door popped open, and Claire, fairy wings all a-flutter, pulled Miranda inside. It was like a military operation, only with one hundred percent less camouflage.
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#95. Shane's dad said, "I should have left you in the damn cage to fry, you ungrateful little bastard. You're no son of mine."
"Hallelujah," Shane said softly. Free at last.
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#96. Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.
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#97. That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.
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#98. It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.
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#99. Myrnin: "I shall name him Bob, Bob the spider"
Claire: "You're insane."
Myrnin: "Why Claire, I thought that was part of my charm." (something like that)
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#100. And that was all of it. The machine stretched out in an endless, dizzying series of loops and whirls and weird mechanisms, sprouting wires like tree
roots. It didn't look real to her. Neither did Myrnin, as he turned to her with a barely concealed red glow in his eyes.
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