Top 100 Morganville Quotes
#1. Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.
Rachel Caine
#2. Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'
It was the perfect motto for Morganville.
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#3. My vampire boss, who would like to maybe be my boyfriend, just dropped in to tell me he was running away because Morganville's too dangerous.
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#4. And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about
it.
You had to save what you could.
Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to
try.
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#5. 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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#6. The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.
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#7. 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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#8. Some people come to Morganville and collapse," Michael said as he put the car in motion. "I've seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just - bloom. You're one of those."
Claire didn't feel especially bloomy. "So you're saying I thrive on chaos.
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#9. Bite Me!-Shane Collins to Eve Rosser.
The Morganville Vampire Series
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#10. No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he'd already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn't worried about her coming after him - or, if so, what would happen when she did.
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#11. Shane said, "Don't worry. I'll protect you."
Claire hit him in the shoulder. "I don't need you to protect me."
"Then why am I going first?"
"So you can take the first punch while I throw the second?"
"So I'm bait? Ouch. You've been in Morganville way too long, girl.
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#12. Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.
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#13. You staked a vampire with a number two pencil."
"I didn't actually check the number."
- Shane Collins and Claire Danvers from Morganville Vampires
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#14. You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.
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#15. Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.
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#16. They did seem pretty serious about their mayhem.
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#17. Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream.
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#18. I don't see a way in," Eve whispered.
Why are you whispering?" Myrnin whispered back. "Vampires can hear us, anyway.
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#19. Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne
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#20. 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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#21. His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?"
"If you like."
"Oh," he said, "I like.
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#22. You can't go around ... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just ... unsanitary.
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#23. Giving up is always easy. It's the peace that follows that sucks.
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#24. Gear up, Warrior Princess. We've got some adventuring to do.
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#25. If she were any friendlier, she'd be giving you a lapdance right now.
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#26. I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
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#27. At least this way we're safe in a room with a door that locks. And the sign says they have HBO."
That stands for Horrible Bloody Ohmygod." Eve said. "which is the way they kill you. When you think you're safe.
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#28. Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.
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#29. 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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#30. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
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#31. Really?" Claire said, and couldn't help but smile. "That's what creeps you out. Waxing. You can take on vampires and draug and killers, but you're afraid of a little chest-hair pulling?
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#32. There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.
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#33. You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall.
"Love you, too, jackass!
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#34. 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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#35. Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.
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#36. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore. Eve
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#37. I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy.
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#38. I can't simply adopt strays because they seem winsome.
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#39. You've been the least useless apprentice I've ever had.
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#40. This one is named Eve," I said. "And don't check my teeth like I'm your livestock. I bite back.
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#41. It's dreadfully unfair to say things like that when this is likely the last time we will speak and we both know you don't mean what you say. It's pure selfishness that you want to keep me here.
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#42. Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.
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#43. It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass.
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#44. Faster!" Shane yelled. Eve hit the gas hard, and whipped around a slower-moving van. The firing ceased, at least for now. "You see why I didn't want you to stop?"
"Okay, your father is officially off my Christmas list!" Eve yelled. "Oh my God, look at my car!
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#45. Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever.
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#46. Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.
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#47. Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!
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#49. People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers ... strangers are always at risk.
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#50. You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.
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#51. Yeah. She'd manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She'd talked rationally about putting people's brains into computers. This was a normal day. No wonder she was screwed up.
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#52. She needs you for more than just protection. It's how it works. You want the strong girl, you understand that she's with you because she wants to be. Not because she has to be. You know that, right?
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#53. Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it.
"What? It's what girls do. Get over it.
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#54. I almost get killed at most parties. Hence, you can tell that's how much I love them.
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#55. Next time we commit crime, we'll make sure to include him.
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#56. 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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#57. Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice?
Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.
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#58. You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.
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#59. Michael ... Michael got bitten. And now he's a vampire. But he doesn't remember becoming one, and that's a big problem. So if you see him, don't, you know, hug. He bites. He doesn't mean it, though.
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#60. Goodness,' Myrnin said quietly. 'I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
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#61. The service passed in a blur of words she wasn't sure she got right, and then the cool touch of the ring sliding onto her fingers, and then the warm pressure of Shane's lips on hers.
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#62. Bite me, Goth princess," Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything."
"Maybe you should say that to Michael."
"Not funny, Eve," Michael said.
Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit," she said.
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#63. That's it? That's your big goodbye?" Eve asked.
Claire looked at Eve mystified. "I think I need guy CliffNotes."
"Guys aren't deep enough to need CliffNotes."
"What were you waiting for, flowery poetry?" Shane snorted. "I hugged. I'm done.
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#64. In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.
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#65. Go to hell and take that with you! She shouted it right in Amelie's face. Eve
was an exotic blaze of color against Amelie's white fury.
And then she slapped the Founder in the face.
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#66. Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.
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#67. I can smell the crazy on that man from here. I have a nose for it.
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#68. Shane kissed her one more time, lightly and softly, and fluffed her hair back from her face. "To be continued," he said.
"I hate cliff-hangers."
"Blame Eve.
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#69. Could you maybe not admire the evil enemy quite as much, and focus on how we're going to get out of this?
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#70. Better be," Eve said. She mock-bit at his finger. "I could totally date somebody else, you know."
"And I could rent out your room."
"And I could put your game console on eBay."
"Hey," Shane protested. "Now you're just being mean.
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#71. When I want to know your opinion, I'll consult your entrails.
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#72. See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!"
"Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!
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#73. I never meant it," he was saying.
"Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it,
seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something ... What do I do? What can I do ... ?
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#74. Just because he's a spider doesn't mean he deserves any less concern!
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#75. As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire's shirt. "What?"
"Ask him where he got the boots."
"You ask." Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.
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#76. Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she'd never even suspected that it could feel this way.
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#77. When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.
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#78. Eve: She told me last!
Shane: Boyfriend!
Michael: Landlord!
Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!
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#79. Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a
disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.
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#80. And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.
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#81. This was ... This was sickeningly different. It was blind, unreasoning hate that just wanted blood and she didn't understand why. It left her feeling horrified and shaky.
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#82. Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love."
"I hardly think there's any chance of that," Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
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#83. Dear girls, I can let anyone get hurt because in my world, my safety and well-being come first.
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#84. Any requests on the kind of car?"
"Something with armor?" she said. "Oooh, and headrest DVD. Bonus for surround sound."
"Rocket launchers," Michael said.
"One hot yellow Hummer with optional mass destruction package, coming up.
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#85. I know, not what you were expecting am I? Everybody says that. Including my own family.
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#86. I never did have much, so having it rough came with the territory. I was conditioned for it.
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#87. Hannah: What's your plan?
Claire: Go get him
Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.
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#88. Shane dragged Eve's suitcase into the room and dumped it on the floor beside her bed. Hey, Dark Princess? Here's your crap. Also, bite me.
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#89. Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.
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#90. I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.
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#91. Oh
who's the Queen?"
"Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter.
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#92. See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often."
"No. Trust me, you shouldn't," Eve said. "Think of all the little old people and the children.
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#94. Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.
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#95. Welcome," Vassily said, and smiled. He showed teeth. "To Immortal Battles. We don't fight to the death
we fight beyond death, in the world's most dangerous sport.
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#96. Me neither," Shane put in. "Homie don't play that."
"I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all," Amelie said.
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#97. Girl, we need to get you on a study program, fast. You're not going to last a week around here if you can't keep up with the pop culture references. How about Lord of the Rings? Firefly? Doctor Horrible? No? Clearly we have a lot of work to do.
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#98. It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.
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#99. Don't worry ... Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming.
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#100. She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.
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