1,033 Quotes by Rachel Caine

And if you want to fight an old man who wants to drag the Great Library into the past, appoint a young woman who looks to the future.

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.

But I’ve kept them safe from the wolves, at least: the most basic and important job of a parent, to keep her offspring from being eaten by predators. Even the ones I can’t see.

Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn’t just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.

He pulled out his personal journal and pen. Jess understood the impulse, all too well, to spill out the bile and hurt into ink, where no one could see it.

You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.

A petty kind of power is still power.

I’m as good a Catholic as you,” Jess said. “I just don’t hold with making the world into copies of what I like.

When I’m feeling uncomfortable, I attack. It makes people step off and gives me time to find my way.