Rick YanceyThe harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.371Reflection
Rick YanceyThere's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts. ✨ Rick Yancey (2013). The 5th Wav… ▶374TimeTruth
Rick YanceyThat's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear. ✨ Rick Yancey (2013). The 5th Wave, p.45, Penguin341Death
Rick YanceyIt's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it. ✨ Rick Yancey (2013). The 5th Wave, p.16, Penguin331Reading
Rick YanceyAnd 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 (2012). The Isle of B… ▶343Time
Rick YanceyI'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene… ▶321Thought
Rick YanceyI 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 t… ▶354Time
Rick YanceyHe spreads his fingers over my heart, like he’s holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he’s won fair and square. ✨ Rick Yancey (2013). The 5th Wav… ▶333LoveReading
Rick YanceyI had it all wrong, he says. Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willi… ▶311DeathThought
Rick YanceyJust because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong. ✨ Rick Yancey (2012). The Isle of Blood, p.141, Simon and Schuster301Humanity
Rick YanceyIn every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.356Truth
Rick YanceyBut monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them. ✨ Rick Yancey (2010). The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath, … ▶312Humanity
Rick YanceyMiss 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… ▶324DeathLife
Rick YanceyAnd 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 f… ▶346Philosophy
Rick YanceyI 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, fr… ▶335Humanity
Rick YanceyYou never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you. ✨ Rick Yancey (2014). The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave, p.52,… ▶379ReadingTimeTruth
Rick YanceyI was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop. ✨ Rick Yancey (2010). The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo, p.28, Si… ▶347Thought
Rick YanceyHold on tight, Sam. He puts me in a choke hold. Ahhh, I gasp. Not that tight. ✨ Rick Yancey (2013). The 5th Wave, p.378, Penguin314Sadness
Rick YanceyAre you okay? I (Cassie) call up to him. Um. Define okay. (Ben) Okay means you're not bleeding to death. I'm okay.292Death
Rick YanceyAnd if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.358Humanity
Rick YanceyBecause promises matter. They matter now more than ever. ✨ Rick Yancey (2013). The 5th Wave, p.278, Penguin336Reading
Rick YanceyThe 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… ▶358Love
Rick YanceyMemories 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 ou… ▶303Sadness
Rick YanceyTo show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from ou… ▶325HopeHumanityThought
Rick YanceyBut if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am… ▶292HumanityReading
Rick YanceyAdolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead. ✨ Rick Yancey (2012). The Isle of Blood, p.202, Simon an… ▶293Death
Rick YanceyWhat were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer! ✨ Rick Yancey (2013). The 5th Wave, p.20, Penguin304Thought
Rick YanceyYou 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. ✨ Ri… ▶271Time
Rick YanceyAs 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.348Love
Rick YanceyOur enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. ✨ The Mon… ▶316ReadingTruth
