Rick Yancey Quotes - Page 5

• The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

  Rick Yancey

  Drinking, Men, Doctors

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

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  Self, Centeredness, Pity

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

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  Children, Real, Monsters

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all

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  Feelings, Hated, Cursed

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.

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  Missing, Sailor, Members

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

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  Stupid, Philosophical, Useless

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.

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  Media, Hombres, Diferencias

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Time for the world to end.

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  Mundo, Finales

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• She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?

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  Moving, Taken, Eye

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.263, Penguin

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• I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.

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  Eye, Men, Sharks

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.307, Penguin

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• I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.

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  Mind, World, Want

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• He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

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  Confused, Sharks, Aftermath

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.385, Penguin

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• I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

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  Moving, Past, Waiting

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.296, Penguin

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• 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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  Ears, Clay, Masters

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

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• I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.

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  Strong, Mistake, Mean

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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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• And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine

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  Eye, Looks, Half

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.186, Penguin UK

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• I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.

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  Eating, Honestly, Cheeseburger

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.46, Penguin

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• A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost. His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And ran.

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  War, Heart, Battle

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.135, Penguin

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• I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.

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  Eyelashes, Tickling, Lips

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.165, Penguin

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• Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

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  Prayer, Broken, Promise

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• Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie?

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  Enemy, Know How, Knows

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.80, Penguin

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• I start to unbutton his shirt. "Got to get these clothes off," I mutter. "You don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that." Smile. Lopsided. Sexy.

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  Sexy, Clothes, Long

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• Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.

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  Niños, Mentir, Creer

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.

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  Knives, Drs, Butchers

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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