Rick Yancey Quotes - Page 6

• Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.

  Rick Yancey

  Husband, Thinking, Laughing

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Rick Yancey

  Odio, Te Amo, Largo

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• Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the long-sought-after peace of our twilight years.

  Rick Yancey

  Memories, Twilight, Army

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all.

  Rick Yancey

  Girl, Color, Apples

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!

  Rick Yancey

  Jealous, Differences, Hypocrisy

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.

  Rick Yancey

  Bait, Hunters

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

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  Monsters, Shapes, Flesh

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from no illusions. I have freed myself, you see, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.

  Rick Yancey

  Men, Order, Essence

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

  Rick Yancey

  Home, Mean, Gone

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

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  Enemy, Poison, Assumption

  "The Monstrumologist". Book by Rick Yancey, September 22, 2009.

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• Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.

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  Worry, Tampons, Able

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.29, Penguin

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• It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

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  Jobs, Heart, Break

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.201, Penguin

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• It's an either/or world now.

  Rick Yancey

  World, Either Or

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.51, Penguin

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• I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

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  Grace, Ignorant, Social

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

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  Rude, Miles, Staring

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

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

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  Answers, Earth, Messages

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

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• 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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  Gone, 5th Wave

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.164, Penguin

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• After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my feet a couple inches off the ground as I kick furiously with my heels, twisting my head back and forth, snapping at his forearm with my teeth. And the whole time his lips tickling the delicate skin of my ear. "Cassie. Don't. Cassie..." "Let...me...go." "That's been the whole problem. I can't.

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  Crush, Couple, Feet

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• What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

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  Beer, Thinking, Aliens

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.20, Penguin

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• There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

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  Light, Darkness, Might

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.

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  Smart, Doors, Waste

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.41, Penguin

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• Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.

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  Becoming, Leaving Me, Please

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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