Rick Yancey Quotes - Page 2

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• I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

  Rick Yancey

  Silly, Ideas, Justified

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of word and deed, mere totems of the true person, who, like the gods to whom the temples were built, remains hidden. We understand our own construct; we know our own theory; we love our own fabrication. Still . . . does the artifice of our affection make our love any less real?

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  Real, Mind, Temples

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

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  Waiting, May, Empty

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

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  Sensitive Person, Personality, Habit

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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• We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.

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  Thinking, Brave, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.67, Penguin

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• When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

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  Running, Giving Up, Past

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.357, Penguin

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• The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise, and if he breaks that promise, the war is over - not the big war, but the war that matters, the one in the battlefield of his heart. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

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  War, Kids, Heart

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.278, Penguin

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• God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.

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  Son, Has Beens

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• 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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  Running, Odds, Advice

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING

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  Running, Staying, 5th Wave

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

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• Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.

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  Stupid, What Is Love, Tricks

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

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  Real, Loneliness, Opposites

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.240, Penguin UK

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• There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

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  Thinking, Bullshit, Knows

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.140, Penguin

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• Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

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  Dream, Fall, Night

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.

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  Men, Doctors, Smell

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us do, but embraced them as his own, clutching them to his heart in a choke-hold grip. He did not try to escape them by denying them or drugging them or bargaining with them. He met them where they lived, in the secret place most of us keep hidden. Warthrop was Warthrop down to the marrow of his bones, for his demons defined him; they breathed the breath of life into him; and without them, he would go down, as most of us do, into the purgatorial fog of a life unrealized.

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  Running, Heart, Men

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

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  Perfect, Legs, Pants

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.231, Penguin UK

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• If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

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  Promise, World, Break

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.352, Penguin

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• He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

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  Girl, People, Degrees

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.30, Penguin

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• A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

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  Lying, Men, Arms

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes you think I'm a virgin?" I asked. "You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.

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  Thinking, Blood, Make You Think

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• Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.

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  Promise

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.225, Penguin

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• 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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  Life, Stars, Care

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.386, Penguin

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• To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.

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  Men, Differences, Monsters

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Final Descent”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• My first favourite book was Are You My Mother? A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.

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  Mother, Book, Bird

  "Quickfire interview: Rick Yancey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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