Rick Yancey
Quotes by Rick Yancey
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Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there.
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To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.
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If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.
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Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.
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You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.
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You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal.
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The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.
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These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed.But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets.The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me.
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The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class.
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You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.
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She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touch her shoulder. Her dark hair brushes the back of my hand. Her dark eyes shine. Their brightness goes all the way down.You found me, she says.I kneel beside her. I take her hand. I found you.My back is broken,she says. I can't walk.I slide my arms beneath her. I'll carry you.
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Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.
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Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's what you do when the curtain is falling — you give the line that the audience wants to hear.
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He was a finisher who could not finish. He was the heart of a hunter who lacked the heart to kill.In her journal she had written I am humanity, and something in those three words split him in two.She was the may fly, here for a day, then gone. She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.Erase the human.In a burst of blinding light, the star Cassiopeia exploded and the world went black.Evan Walker had been undone.
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We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We're pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.
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Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten steel.I am humanityHe crawled.I am humanity.He fell.I am humanity.He got up.
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That's the cost. That's the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you're left with humans with no humanity.In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker
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Libraries, museums, universities, everything we designed and built over six thousand years. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.
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I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running, not staying, but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield
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That's the cost. That's the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you're left with humans with no humanity.In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker.
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