Top 100 Rick Yancey Quotes
#1. Love may be nothing more than a complex interaction of hormones, conditioned behavior, and positive reinforcement, but try writing a poem or song about that.
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#2. But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.
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#3. There's my gut instinct: Don't rush. Don't force the issue. Let it play out.
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#4. You don't feel like it's going to happen to you ... until it happens to you.
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#5. How do you rid the Earth of humans? You rid the humans of their humanity.
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#6. Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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#7. I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript?
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#8. I could feel the tug of morbid curiosity, like an outgoing tide pulling on a swimmer, urging me to look again. I
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#9. Well, thought I, he's either sleeping or he's dead. If the former, I dare not wake him. If the latter, I cannot!
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#10. You know you've reached a very sad place when the only person who can make you laugh is yourself.
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#11. We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance.
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#12. Maybe you're forgetting who saved your life," Ringer said.
"Oh, kiss my ass.
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#13. The world was ripping apart. And pieces of the wreckage were raining all around me.
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#14. Talking about the problem had replaced actually doing something about it.
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#15. Beautiful is another word we tossed around too casually, slopping it over everything from cars to nail polish until the word collapsed under the weight of all the banality. But the world is beautiful. I hope they never forget that. The world is beautiful.
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#16. There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to.
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#17. reeking of sewage and rotting corpses, burned-out shells of houses, feral dogs
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#18. The world begins again. Humanity owes its existence to a bit of cosmic whimsy. To a rock. It
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#19. As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you ... to make my love bearable.
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#20. one out of every three surviving human beings on Earth is one of them.
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#21. The world will burn for years. It will burn until I'm my father's age - if I live that long.
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#22. But I think he knew in the end it wouldn't be the lucky ones left standing. It would be the hardcore. The ones who tell Lady Luck to go screw herself. The ones with hearts of stone.
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#24. the silence of the void, as if the world stopped breathing and
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#25. The boy who never sleeps, sleeping. Coming to rest upon the Cassiopeian shore, an island in the middle of a sea of blood. You have your promise, and I have you.
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#26. Virtues are vices now, and death is the cost of love. Not the death of his body. His body was the lie. True death. The death of his humanity. The death of his soul.
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#27. Remember, Will Henry, some falsehoods are borne of necessity not foolishness.
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#28. Everything's broken?" he asked Cassie. "Everything?"
"No, not everything, Sams," she answered. "Not this."
She took his hand and put it against his chest, and his pounding heart pushed fiercely against his open palm.
"Unbroken," she said.
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#29. There was not breaking through the lie because accepting the truth would break them.
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#31. Silencer, was as good as any. It described his purpose: to snuff out the human noise.
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#32. the man with the rifle watches the stars as if waiting for them to shake loose from the black and tumble to the Earth. Why
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#33. The 12th System can protect you from the pain that afflicts your body, but it's helpless against the pain that crushes your soul.
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#34. The only truth is the truth of the now. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. There is no morality, but the morality of the moment.
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#35. They've flipped the natural order on us, boy. Better to die than live. Better to give up than fight. Better to hide than face. They know the way to break us is to kill us first here.
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#36. Okay, don't just die, then. Die trying.
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#37. We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe.
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#38. Somentimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault.You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better.
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#39. Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.
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#40. When the power goes out, we jump up to ... To what? It's weird. We're so used to electricity, when it's gone, we don't know what to do. So we jump up or squeal or start jabbering like idiots. We panic. It's like someone cut off our oxygen.
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#41. When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.
And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.
The Cassie who kills.
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#42. Ultimately, Bob is on nobody's side but Bob's.
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#43. I've decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it. My problem is that buried box is like a scab I can't stop picking at.
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#44. We're all dead ... Some of us are just a little further along than others.
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#45. Her raised his face to the weeping sky, closed his dark eyes, and sighed deeply, a smile playing on his sensuous lips. The bloody hour is come.
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#46. The only certainty is uncertainty, except your own death, that's damn certain.
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#47. I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.
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#48. He lost a finger. A finger! Why, I once had a Sherpa who guided me across the Himalayas with his small intestines hanging out of his gut
in winter!
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#49. To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.
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#50. It is a detestable vice not entirely limited to children. Always speak the truth, all the truth in all things at all times! No man ever rose to greatness on the wings of obsequious deceit.
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#51. So, I thought, this is how dead people see the world.
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#53. He would bear any burden, endure any hardship, suffer any torment if that suffering added a single moment to her life.
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#54. Though I understand the theology behind it, the image does not bring me peace; it makes me feel sorry for the lion. It strips him of his essence, the fundamental part of his being. A lion that does not behave as a lion i snot a lion. It isn't even the lion's opposite. It's a mockery of a lion.
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#55. I couldn't outrun them. I couldn't outgun them. Maybe I could outsmart them.
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#56. God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.
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#57. Dad the launching pad. Dad the landing zone. Dad the tether that kept Sams - and me - from hurtling into the nullity of deep space, a nullity himself now.
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#58. A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.
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#59. clinging to modesty in the age of the Others is like sacrificing a goat to make it rain.
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#60. The one sure way of not being alone was wanting to be alone.
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#61. More important by far is that one be honest with oneself. I have always been, and it has cost me dearly. Nothing matters but the truth. I have dedicated my life to the pursuit of it, no matter where it hides. That is the heart of science, Will Henry, the true monster we pursue.
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#62. For the gazelle, fear of being eaten. For the lion, fear of starvation. Fear is the chain that binds them together.
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#63. Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting!
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#64. It's what we're made for. It's what got us here. It's the reason I have this car to hide under. We are human. And humans thin. They plan. They dream, and they make the dream real.
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#65. There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.
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#66. Like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. so you put all your doubts in a little box and then try to forget where you buried it. -Cassie
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#67. His were the eyes of one who had seen too much suffering to take suffering too seriously.
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#68. I am a scientist, and therefore an absolute realist.
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#69. The thing about killing is you don't know if you can actually do it until you actually do it.
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#70. There's nothing fated in our stars. No meant-to-be in any of it. We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe. And that's okay. These seven billion billion atoms are good with that.
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#71. It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!
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#72. Killing humans - isn't that the aliens' job?
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#73. Private Zombie, you have two seconds, exactly two seconds, to seal that sewer pipe posing as a mouth,
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#74. We - can't go back in time and change anything. If you went back in time and killed your grandfather before you were born, then you wouldn't be able to go back in time to kill your grandfather.
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#75. Do you know why our race is doomed, Pellinore? Because it has fallen in love with the pleasant fiction that we are somehow above the very rules that we have determined govern everything else.
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#76. With the right training, there are few things more savage than a ten-year-old.
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#77. You don't run from the people who need you. You fight for them. You fight beside them. No matter the cost. No matter the risk.
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#78. I don't know, maybe imminent peril made him feel more alive somehow, for the same reason zombies are carnivores with only one item on the menu. You never heard of undead vegetarians. Where's the challenge in attacking a plate of asparagus?
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#79. Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt.
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#80. Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak.
"Life," answered the doctor.
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#81. For true beauty - beauty, as it were, with a capital B - is terrifying; it puts us in our place; it reflects back to us our own ugliness. It is the prize beyond price.
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#82. I'm a disease. That's what I am to you.
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#83. She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.
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#84. Private Zombie is Squad Fifty-three's very own catcher in the fucking rye. Private Zombie, I think I have a crush on you. You make me weak in the knees. You make me hate my own mother for giving birth to a male child, so now it's impossible for me to have your babies.
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#85. Single death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
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#86. We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.
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#87. In case you don't know, we live on a restless planet. The
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#88. What happens when the sowers of mistrust become its reapers?
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#89. In her dream, a large owl perches outside the window, staring at her through the glass with huge, white-rimmed eyes.
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#90. That's the flaw in Vosch's master plan: If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.
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#91. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.
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#93. Im a shark cassie, a shark who dreamed he was a man
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#94. You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.
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#95. I've always thought, if heaven is such a wonderful place, why is entering it so absurdly easy? Confess your sins, ask forgiveness - and that is all? No matter what your crimes?
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#96. He leans forward and kisses me hard on the mouth.
"Don't ever do that again," I tell him.
"Why? Because you liked it or because you didn't?"
"Both.
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#97. One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
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#98. She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all
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#99. I was the girl in the background, the just-friend, or - worse - the friend of a just-friend, the you-sit-next-to-her-in-geometry-but-can't-remember-her-name girl. It would have been better if some middle-aged collector of Star Wars action figures had found me in that snowbank.
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#100. saw he had not been scraping at an exposed rib. He had been cleaning the thing's teeth.
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