"Get ready to run."
Director: Wes Ball
Cast: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee, Will Poulter
The Maze Runner — Movie Quotes
Memorable Quotes
Wicked is good.
Context
Spoken during Ava Paige's final video transmission before her staged suicide, and echoing through Thomas’s recurring memory fragments.
Meaning
The thematic thesis of the antagonists—a chilling utilitarian declaration asserting that any atrocity is defensible if it preserves the collective species.
Great, we're all bloody inspired.
Context
Delivered dryly in response to a tense standoff and impassioned speech regarding whether to enter the maze.
Meaning
Highlights Newt’s dry, British, grounding humor, defusing tense moments of dramatic posturing and humanizing the boys' camaraderie.
No one has ever survived a night in the maze.
Context
Said to Thomas early on as a warning against approaching the doors as they close at sundown.
Meaning
Establishes the mythological dread of the labyrinth and heightens the stakes for Thomas’s subsequent survival feat.
We belong to the maze.
Context
Gally’s final confrontation at gunpoint inside the laboratory after escaping the Glade.
Meaning
Epitomizes institutional conditioning and psychological trauma: victims identifying with and defending their own prison.
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