Rachel Caine Quotes

237 Sourced Quotes

You okay?" he asked me. I nodded, unable to say anything that would really cover how I felt. "Then get out of the way." "Huh?" "Your legs. Please

Rachel Caine
Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

Rachel Caine
If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

Rachel Caine
I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good...tumble dry."-Eve Rosser

Rachel Caine
The door banged open and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. "It's not what you think." She said. "It was just - oh OK, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now WHAT?

Rachel Caine
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.

Rachel Caine
What's possible? - she asked Anything, he said absently. But that's not what I was talking about. Oh, hello, Claire. You're in good time. I need an extra pair of hands. As long as I keep them attached, she said, which earned her a startled stare. The things you say to me, you'd think I was some sort of monster. — Myrnin and Claire

Rachel Caine
Claire. Wake up. She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane's shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her first thought was, Oh my God, am I drooling? Her second was that she hadn't realized she was so close to him, snuggled in. Her third was that although Michael's part of the couch was empty, Shane hadn't moved away. And he was watching her with warm, friendly eyes. Oh. Oh, wow, that was nice.

Rachel Caine
God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more."

Rachel Caine
Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?

Rachel Caine
Because you know, I'm your best friend, but you're just not that badass, man.

Rachel Caine
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.

Rachel Caine
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
Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.

Rachel Caine
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
Amelie said, I won't be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals. She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. Now defend what is ours, my partner. He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.

Rachel Caine
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
Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now

Rachel Caine
Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.

Rachel Caine
Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody's staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this.

Rachel Caine
Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

Rachel Caine
He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?" "Like what?" "Like hitting on you." "Ew. No, of course not. He doesn't see me that way." Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee. "What? You think he does?" "Sometimes he looks at you a little... oddly, that's all. Maybe you're right. Maybe he just wants you for your blood." "Again, Ew! What's with you this morning?" "Not enough coffee.

Rachel Caine
How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls.

Rachel Caine
Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment.

Rachel Caine
But sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it's sadly temporary in its effects.

Rachel Caine
She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before.

Rachel Caine
Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

Rachel Caine
I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?" "No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.

Rachel Caine
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.

Rachel Caine
"You're kidding," Shane said. "Do you think I want to visit Crazy McTeeth in his lair of insanity?" "No," Claire said, "but I'm pretty sure you won't like it if I go alone when I just kind of promised to be with you. So...?" "Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway." "Stop making up names for him." "What about Count Crackula?" "Just stop."

Rachel Caine