60+ Best The Maze Runner Quotes From The Books And Movies
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'The Maze Runner' was originally a sci-fi novel series written by the American author James Dashner.
The story was then adapted into a movie series of the same name. Every character in 'The Maze Runner' has some amazing quotes.
We've compiled the best of those quotes in this article. If you want to read more quotes from other popular movie series, then head over to our articles on Short Harry Potter quotes and 'Twilight' quotes.
Best Maze Runner Quotes
Here are the most important quotes from 'The Maze Runner' movie.
1. "They took you because you’re immune to a plague that’s wiping out the human race."
- Vince.
2. "If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human."
- Alby.
3. "The outside world awaits. Remember, wicked is good."
- Ava Paige.
4. "Everything started going wrong the minute you showed up. First Ben, then Alby, and now the girl."
- Gally.
5. "Here, You'll run better on a full stomach."
- Chuck.
6. "Yeah... but he saved Alby's life."
- Frypan
7. "We’re running out of time. You’ve seen what’s happening out there."
- Ava Paige.
8. "It's a girl. I think she's dead."
- Newt.
9. "Three years we’ve spent behind walls trying to breakout, and now we want to break back in. And I get a shot gun."
- Newt.
10. "You won't remember, but the sun has scorched our world."
- Ava Paige.
11. "You get your name back in a day or two. It's the one thing they let us keep."
- Alby.
12. "The rules are the only thing that have ever held us together."
- Gally.
13. "You’re so close to the truth. Don’t you want to know why this all happened?"
- Janson.
14. "Well, that's a good speech, kid. So what's your plan?"
- Vince.
15. "Thomas, you can save your friends, or you can save us all."
- Ava Paige.
Maze Runner Book Quotes
Here are the best quotes from the James Dashner novel 'The Maze Runner'.
16. "Thomas rocked back on his heels, then ran his arm across his forehead, wiping away the sweat."
- James Dashner.
17. "Thomas thought Chuck’s personality had gone from mildly irritating to intolerable."
- James Dashner.
18. "She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away."
- James Dashner.
19. "‘You think we’re safe with these people?’ Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby... Thomas pondered the question for a moment. There was only one answer to hold onto. ‘Yeah, I think we’re safe’."
- James Dashner.
20. "Tonight the Grievers better be scared."
- James Dashner.
21. "Sending Teresa here and shutting everything down was only the last part, one more…final analysis. Now it’s time for the last test. To escape"
- James Dashner.
22. "Sometimes you don't look very hard for things you don't believe will or can happen."
- James Dashner.
23. "Every lovin’ second of every lovin’ day we spend in honor of the Maze, tryin’ to solve somethin’ that’s not shown us it has a bloody solution, ya know?"
- James Dashner.
24. "'I promised him!' he screamed, realizing even as he did so that his voice was laced with something wrong."
- James Dashner.
25. "It looked like an experiment gone terribly wrong."
- James Dashner.
26. "Despite the alternative, despite knowing that if they hadn’t tried to escape, all of them might’ve died, it still hurt, even though he hadn’t known them very well."
- James Dashner.
27. "He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?"
- James Dashner.
28. "Tonight we’re taking the fight back to the Creators, no matter what we have to go through to get there."
- James Dashner.
29. "As she sucked in a huge breath, her eyes snapped open and she blinked…Then she spoke one sentence—her voice hollow and haunted, but clear. 'Everything is going to change.'"
- James Dashner.
30. "I promised I’d save him, take him home! I promised him!"
- James Dashner.
31. "Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there."
- James Dashner.
32. "Gonna save us all! Gonna save us from the Flare! Don’t believe a word they tell ya! Gonna save us from the Flare, ya are!"
- James Dashner.
33. "Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does."
- James Dashner.
34. "I've been shucked and gone to heaven."
- James Dashner.
35. "'Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?' Minho asked. 'Go ahead,' Newt replied."
- James Dashner.
36. "If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone’s life, then go ahead. "
- James Dashner.
37. "Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,' he said dryly. 'Don't die.'"
- James Dashner.
38. "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong."
- James Dashner.
39. "I didn’t do anything wrong. All I know is I saw two people struggling to get inside these walls and they couldn’t make it."
- James Dashner.
40. "We can’t go back to where we came from. I’ve seen it, remembered awful, awful things. Burned land, a disease—something called the Flare. It was horrible—way worse than we have it here…Better to die than go home."
- James Dashner.
Newt Maze Runner Quotes
Here are the best quotes from the character Newt.
41. "That’s one of the reasons we run this place all nice and busylike. You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin’ up. Plain and simple."
- Newt.
42. "Runners are the only ones who really know what's out there. They are the strongest and the fastest of us all. And it's a good thing."
- Newt.
43. "When those doors open, they run the maze, mapping it, memorizing it, trying to find a way out."
- Newt.
44. "He saved your life today."
- Newt.
45. "Well, we call 'em Grievers. Of course, no one's ever seen one and lived to tell about it."
- Newt.
46. "Dear Thomas, this is the first letter I can remember writing. Obviously, I don’t know if I wrote any before the Maze. But even if it’s not my first, it’s likely to be my last."
- Newt.
47. "Great, we're all bloody inspired."
- Newt.
48. "I want you to know that I’m not scared. Well, not of dying, anyway. It’s more forgetting. It’s losing myself to this virus. That’s what scares me."
- Newt.
49. "So every night I’ve been saying their names out loud. Alby, Winston, Chuck. And I just repeat them over and over, like a prayer, and it all comes flooding back."
- Newt.
50. "I remember the first time you came up in the box, just a scared little Greenie who couldn’t even remember his own name."
- Newt.
Thomas Maze Runner Quotes
Here are the best quotes from the character Thomas.
51. "How many kids do they have to round up, torture, kill, when the hell does it stop?"
- Thomas.
52. "Yeah let me guess wicked is good?"
- Thomas.
53. "We found this. It was inside a Griever."
- Thomas.
54. "We don't belong here. This place isn't our home."
- Thomas.
55. "No, I'm not trying to scare you. You're already scared. Alright? I'm scared. But I'd rather risk my life out there than spending the rest of it in here."
- Thomas.
56. "Brenda: You can’t save everyone, Thomas.
Thomas: I could try."
- 'The Maze Runner'.
57. "And yet he didn’t know where he came from, or how he’d gotten inside the dark lift, or who his parents were. He didn’t even know his last name."
- Thomas.
Minho Maze Runner Quotes
Here are the best quotes from the character Minho.
58. "Chuck: You saw a Griever?
Thomas: Yeah, I saw one.
Minho: He didn't just see it. He killed it."
- 'The Maze Runner'.
59. "Be careful, don't die."
- Minho.
60. "I say we make him a Runner."
- Minho.
61. "You don't get it. We're already dead."
- Minho.
62. "Listen to me, shuck-face. Alright? Take a look around! There's nowhere to go!"
- Minho.
Teresa Maze Runner Quotes
Here are the best quotes from the character Teresa.
63. "But I did what I thought was right."
- Teresa.
64. "It stops when we find a cure."
- Teresa.
65. "The world is dying. If we find a cure that’s the only way this was worth it."
- Teresa.
66. "It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us."
- Teresa.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for 'The Maze Runner' Quotes then why not take a look at Katniss Everdeen quotes, or 'The Hate U Give' quotes.
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