Rick Yancey
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They don't belong to the past. They belong to you. RICK YANCEY I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking a... RICK YANCEY Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon ... RICK YANCEY For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question RICK YANCEY I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I wou... RICK YANCEY Is this how humanity waves good-bye?RICK YANCEY Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of commun... RICK YANCEY How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. RICK YANCEY You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your li... RICK YANCEY And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and... RICK YANCEY But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the s... RICK YANCEY And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield. RICK YANCEY He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background... RICK YANCEY We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel bra... RICK YANCEY They were afraid the longer we pretended to be human, the more human we would become.”RICK YANCEY My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha... RICK YANCEY Some things down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things RICK YANCEY Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forge... RICK YANCEY Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end ... RICK YANCEY There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; an... RICK YANCEY He looked at me and smiled reassuringly and said, "Everything is going to be okay," because that's w... RICK YANCEY When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought ... RICK YANCEY The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speec... RICK YANCEY If you leave without me, I’ll just follow you. You can’t stop me, Cassie. How are you going to s... RICK YANCEY It's the lady, then," he murmured. RICK YANCEY Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the ... RICK YANCEY And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime.... RICK YANCEY Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any ot... RICK YANCEY You could see the smile coming a year before it arrived. RICK YANCEY Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall... RICK YANCEY Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" RICK YANCEY You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot... RICK YANCEY But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie d... RICK YANCEY He knew the truth. Yes, my dear child, he would undoubtedly tell a terrified toddler tremulou... RICK YANCEY As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't... RICK YANCEY I am drowning in an infinite sea. RICK YANCEY But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It... RICK YANCEY Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky. RICK YANCEY God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called. RICK YANCEY We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with... RICK YANCEY It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look frie... RICK YANCEY And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchli... RICK YANCEY One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own ch... RICK YANCEY Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practical... RICK YANCEY I’m about to pee myself with relief that we’re all alive, but mostly because he is.RICK YANCEY Cassie?”RICK YANCEY Zombie!” Sammy calls. “I knew it was you.”RICK YANCEY His body is pressed against my back, his arm is wrapped protectively around my waist, his breath a d... 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In the silence outside the T... RICK YANCEY He stiffened and said with great dignity, "I am a natural scientist. We are accustomed to dealing wi... RICK YANCEY Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong. RICK YANCEY I'd walk right up to him and blow his brains out. RICK YANCEY Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I... RICK YANCEY Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it. RICK YANCEY I should have asked, I guess,” he says. “I shouldn’t have assumed.”RICK YANCEY A moment comes in war when the last lines must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold a f... RICK YANCEY The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her. RICK YANCEY I’ll do whatever you say, Cassie,” he says helplessly. His eyes shine brighter than the stars ov... RICK YANCEY Dislodged cobwebs and dust swirled around them. The ceiling was holding for now. He doubted it could... 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