Quotes from The Maze Runner

James Dashner ·  384 pages

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“If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby.
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner



“I've been shucked and gone to heaven.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“I promised him!" he screamed, realizing even as he did so that his voice was laced with something wrong. Almost insanity. "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“Maybe you should just press the button”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner



“Holy crap, I’m scared.”

“Holy crap, you’re human. You should be scared.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“You're the shuckiest shuck-faced shuck there ever was.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner



“I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“Minho snickered and leaned back in his chair. “Man, you are one butt-load of sunshine, let me tell you.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?' Minho asked...
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,' he said dryly. 'Don't die.'
Thomas would have laughed if he could, but he was too scared for it to come out.
'Great. We're all bloody inspired,' Newt answered.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner



“All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan.
They needed more clues about the code. They needed MEMORIES.
So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“She paused. That's just my way of saying I would've killed you if you'd died.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“Ah, my Knight in Shining Armor. What, you don't think I can fend for myself?”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“I didn't do anyting wrong. All I know is I saw two people struggling to get inside these walls and they [Minho and Alby] couldn't make it. To ignore that because of some stupid rule seemed selfish, cowardly, and... well, stupid. If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone's [Alby] life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I'll point at them and laugh, then go eat some of Frypan's dinner. -Thomas”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“sometimes you don't look very hard for things you don't believe will or can happen.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner



“Tonight, they’d make their stand, once and for all.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


“Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner


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