Rick Yancey

Rick Yancey

"You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you."
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"You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you."
Rick Yancey The Infinite Sea
"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."
Rick Yancey The 5th Wave
"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."
Rick Yancey The 5th Wave
"And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield."
Rick Yancey The 5th Wave
"The world will burn for a hundred years. Fire will consume the things we made from wood and plastic and rubber and cloth, then water and wind and time will chew the stone and steel into dust. How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they needed was Mother Nature and time."
Rick Yancey
"I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man."
Rick Yancey
"And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead."
Rick Yancey
"So cold your tears freeze against your cheeks.'It's not my fault,' I told Bear. 'I don't make the weather. You got a beef, take it up with God.' That's what I've been doing a lot lately: taking it up with"
Rick Yancey
"Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt."
Rick Yancey
"Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things."
Rick Yancey
"Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too."
Rick Yancey
"We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth’s final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance."
Rick Yancey
"I'm a little panicky when I realize he's not here. It's a lot easier to push down my doubt when he's with me. When I can see those eyes the color of melted chocolate and hear his deep voice that falls over me like a warm blanket on a cold night."
Rick Yancey
"We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge."
Rick Yancey
"Sometimes in my tent, last at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping, against the sky."
Rick Yancey
"The monstrous act by definition demands a monster."
Rick Yancey
"Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield."
Rick Yancey
"With an enemy like that, who needs friends?"
Rick Yancey
"In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and, if it is feminine, she's not the kind of woman you can trust. Human beings may be her finest achievement yet, but when you get right down to brass tacks, we're meat. AIDS and organisms like streptococcus don't give a crap that we subdued the earth or produced a Shakespeare..."
Rick Yancey
"My nose is broken," I said. Damn that Dumbo. Made me self-conscious."My ankle's broken," he said."Then I'll come to you."
Rick Yancey
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