The Maze Runner Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“WICKED is good”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

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

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

“Good that.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?”
― James Dashner, 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.”

"Great. We're all bloody inspired." Newt said.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

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

“A loud boom exploded the air, making Thomas jump. It was followed by a horrible crunching, grinding sound. He stumbled backward, fell to the ground. He wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it for himself. The enormous stone wall to the right of them seemed to defy every known law of physics as it slid along the ground, throwing sparks and dust as it moved, rock against rock. The crunching sound rattled his bones. He looked around at the other openings. On all four sides of the Glade, the right walls were moving toward the left, closing the gap of the Doors.
Then one final boom rumbled across the Glade as all four Doors sealed shut for the night.”
― James Dashner, 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, The Maze Runner

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

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

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

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

“Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. 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, The Maze Runner

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

“Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know a human could feel. He wanted them dead, tortured, even. He wanted Chuck to be happy. But happiness had been ripped form their lives. Love had been ripped from their lives.”
― James Dashner, 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, The Maze Runner