Top 100 Morganville's Quotes
#1. 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.
Rachel Caine
#2. Why?" Eve asked between breathless pants. she wasn't much of a runner either.
"Someone's coming" Shane said. "Shhhh."
Eve choked and strangled on a cough, and muttered "got to cut down on the cigarettes."
"you don't smoke," Claire whispered.
"then i'm completely screwed.
Rachel Caine
#3. Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?"
- Black Dawn
Rachel Caine
#4. 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.
Rachel Caine
#5. She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not ... you know, better."
"Define BETTER with that guy."
"Not all fangs and raaaaar.
Rachel Caine
#6. Claire stretched out against the wall and kissed it. "Glad to see you, too," she whispered, and pressed her cheek against the smooth surface. It almost felt like it hugged her back.
"Dude, it's a house," Shane said from behind her. "Hug somebody who cares.
Rachel Caine
#7. What was your name again?"
"Still Eve."
"No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.
Rachel Caine
#8. 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.
Rachel Caine
#9. 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.
Rachel Caine
#11. 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.
Rachel Caine
#12. 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.
Rachel Caine
#13. 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.
Rachel Caine
#14. 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.
Rachel Caine
#15. When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.
Rachel Caine
#16. 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.
Rachel Caine
#17. Just because he's a spider doesn't mean he deserves any less concern!
Rachel Caine
#18. 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.
Rachel Caine
#19. I can smell the crazy on that man from here. I have a nose for it.
Rachel Caine
#20. Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.
Rachel Caine
#21. 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.
Rachel Caine
#22. 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.
Rachel Caine
#23. 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.
Rachel Caine
#24. 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.
Rachel Caine
#25. 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.
Rachel Caine
#26. 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.
Rachel Caine
#27. I think so," she [Claire] said. "Just watch your back, okay?"
"Nah, Michael's got mine." He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes.
"I've got yours.
Rachel Caine
#28. He's not getting out of here again ... But you don't have to go all Marquis de Sade on him either. Just kill him or let me.
Rachel Caine
#29. Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.'
'I'm not dissing you,' Claire sighed. 'I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important.
Rachel Caine
#30. That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.
Rachel Caine
#31. The world doesn't end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It's way of things. The human way.
Rachel Caine
#32. That's incredible ... I don't know
okay, well, you know, nobody's probably voting for me. I mean, I'm not Richard. I haven't gone out of my way to be responsible or anything.
Rachel Caine
#33. I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.
Rachel Caine
#34. He's named you heir apparent to the Apocalypse. Congratulations.
Rachel Caine
#35. 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.
Rachel Caine
#36. 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.
Rachel Caine
#37. Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy.
Rachel Caine
#38. Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much."
"Dick. That's not what you said last night."
"Bite me.
Rachel Caine
#39. Who's your daddy?'
Myrnin stared at him as if he'd gone completely mental. 'Excuse me?
Rachel Caine
#40. Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do ... well, you can't. Sorry about that.
Rachel Caine
#41. Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.
Rachel Caine
#42. Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners."
"And to cleaning," Michael said.
"Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?
Rachel Caine
#43. Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.
Rachel Caine
#44. Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody's staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this.
Rachel Caine
#45. Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering."
"Are you saying that you -"
"Doughnuts!" Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box.
Rachel Caine
#46. So, I guess you're there at your new place. Hope it's awesome. If it's not, you'll make it awesome, because that's what you do. It's your superpower.
Rachel Caine
#47. Where's your sense of adventure?"
"Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?
Rachel Caine
#48. At least you left out the oh-my-God sauce this time."
"Made myself a batch with it," Shane said. "It's got the biohazard sticker on it in the fridge, so don't bitch if you get flamed.
Rachel Caine
#49. I so want his wardrobe,' Eve sighed. 'Is that shallow, or just strange?'
'Don't sell yourself short. It's both.' Shane said.
Rachel Caine
#50. When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles,' Amelie said. 'Not one who ran away from them.'
'Snap,' Eve said.
'You know what they're talking about?' Shane asked.
'Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.
Rachel Caine
#51. Sure," she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. "What could go wrong?"
Michael's eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.
Besides everything, I mean," she said.
Rachel Caine
#52. Gear up, Warrior Princess. We've got some adventuring to do.
Rachel Caine
#53. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore. Eve
Rachel Caine
#54. 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.
Rachel Caine
#55. 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?
Rachel Caine
#56. You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall.
"Love you, too, jackass!
Rachel Caine
#57. 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.
Rachel Caine
#58. 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?
Rachel Caine
#59. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
Rachel Caine
#60. I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy.
Rachel Caine
#61. Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.
Rachel Caine
#62. 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.
Rachel Caine
#63. I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
Rachel Caine
#64. If she were any friendlier, she'd be giving you a lapdance right now.
Rachel Caine
#65. I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy.
Rachel Caine
#66. Giving up is always easy. It's the peace that follows that sucks.
Rachel Caine
#67. You can't go around ... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just ... unsanitary.
Rachel Caine
#68. 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.
Rachel Caine
#69. Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'
It was the perfect motto for Morganville.
Rachel Caine
#70. 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.
Rachel Caine
#71. Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.
Rachel Caine
#72. 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
Rachel Caine
#73. I don't see a way in," Eve whispered.
Why are you whispering?" Myrnin whispered back. "Vampires can hear us, anyway.
Rachel Caine
#74. Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream.
Rachel Caine
#75. They did seem pretty serious about their mayhem.
Rachel Caine
#76. Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.
Rachel Caine
#77. People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers ... strangers are always at risk.
Rachel Caine
#78. 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.
Rachel Caine
#79. You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.
Rachel Caine
#80. 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.
Rachel Caine
#81. 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.
Rachel Caine
#82. 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?
Rachel Caine
#83. Next time we commit crime, we'll make sure to include him.
Rachel Caine
#84. I almost get killed at most parties. Hence, you can tell that's how much I love them.
Rachel Caine
#85. 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.
Rachel Caine
#86. 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?
Rachel Caine
#87. 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.
Rachel Caine
#88. You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.
Rachel Caine
#89. Goodness,' Myrnin said quietly. 'I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
Rachel Caine
#91. Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!
Rachel Caine
#92. Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.
Rachel Caine
#93. Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever.
Rachel Caine
#94. 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!
Rachel Caine
#95. It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass.
Rachel Caine
#96. Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.
Rachel Caine
#97. 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.
Rachel Caine
#98. This one is named Eve," I said. "And don't check my teeth like I'm your livestock. I bite back.
Rachel Caine
#99. You've been the least useless apprentice I've ever had.
Rachel Caine
#100. I can't simply adopt strays because they seem winsome.
Rachel Caine
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
