Rick Yancey Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

  Rick Yancey

  Animal, Meals, Alive

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.28, Penguin

• How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

  Rick Yancey

  Humanity, Earth, Humans

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.25, Penguin

• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

• And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.

  Rick Yancey

  Answers, Earth, Messages

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.32, Penguin

• A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?

  Rick Yancey

  Children, Fall, Sight

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin