Top 450 Rick Yancey Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “There’s a part of me that’s convinced this everlasting war will end when I coax a smile out of that girl.”

— Rick Yancey

252. “Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world?”

— Rick Yancey

253. “Look, I probably shouldn’t tell someone holding a high-powered semiautomatic rifle this, but you’re really starting to get on my nerves.”

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254. “I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.”

— Rick Yancey

255. “The promise feels like a death sentence, a cell door slamming shut, a stone around my neck that’s destined to carry me down.”

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256. “The world is screaming. The world is being burned alive.”

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257. “We’re so used to electricity, when it’s gone, we don’t know what to do. So we jump up or squeal or start jabbering like idiots. We panic. It’s like someone cut off our oxygen.”

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258. “The last star would die, the universe itself would pass away, but they would go on and on.”

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259. “I want to crack him in the head and burst into tears at the same time. I’ve reached the point of being tired of being tired.”

— Rick Yancey

260. “You can’t be who you say you are because who you say you are could not have done what you did!”

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261. “He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.”

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262. “We’re all dead... Some of us are just a little further along than others.”

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263. “Give someone the power of the gods and he will become as indifferent as the gods.”

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264. “He said it like he assumed I knew what the grandfather paradox was, because, if I didn’t know, then I was a moron. I hate when people do that.”

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265. “Pining for things we lost is the same as hoping for things that can never be. Both roads dead-end in despair.”

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266. “Breathe, Cassie, breathe. He has a good face. Not the face of someone who wants to hurt you. If he wanted to hurt you, he wouldn’t have brought you here and stuck an IV in you to keep you hydrated, and the sheets feel nice and clean, and so what took your clothes and dressed you in this cotton nightie, what did you expect him to do? Your clothes were filthy, like you, only you’re not anymore, and your skin smells a little like lilacs, which means holy Christ he BATHED you.”

— Rick Yancey

267. “Five men and two women, strangers to one another on the eve of that final growing season, now bound by the unspoken promise that the least of them was greater than the sum of all of them.”

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268. “Even the most open person has a private, sacred place where no one else may go.”

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269. “I push the thought away. Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too.”

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270. “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

271. “When in the morning light I wake, teach me the path of love to take.”

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272. “He looked at me and smiled reassuringly and said, “Everything is 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.”

— Rick Yancey

273. “Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement.”

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274. “With the right training, there are few things more savage than a ten-year-old.”

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275. “Too much hope?” The side of her mouth twitches. “Maybe that’s our secret weapon.”

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276. “She looks beautiful in its light, not angelic-beautiful, more like avenging angel–beautiful.”

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277. “Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.”

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278. “I built a fortress safe and strong to last a thousand years. A mighty stronghold that crumbles with a kiss.”

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279. “Lead on, Vader!”

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280. “They can kill us, even down to the last of us, but they can’t kill – can never kill – what lasts in us.”

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281. “I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon – the potential of bacon – gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn’t. Seriously.”

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282. “Thinking about the bacon – the potential of bacon – gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn’t.”

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283. “The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia – summer camps and catching lightning bugs and August skies aflame with stars. The way the desert smells and the long, wistful sigh of wind rushing down from the mountains as the sun dips beneath the horizon.”

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284. “It is hard... to think about those things we do not think about.”

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285. “Those few seconds when you’re awake but empty. You forget where you are. What you are now, what you were before. It’s all breath and heartbeat and blood moving. Like being in your mother’s womb again. The peace of the void.”

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286. “He knew what would come of it. He had always known. Once he found her imprisoned in snow and carried her back and made her whole, his death would be the price. Virtues are vices now, and death is the cost of love. Not the death of his body. His body was the lie. True death. The death of his humanity. The death of his soul.”

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287. “It’s just me and the invader inside me and the dead – not just my family, but all the dead, all however-many-billion of them, reaching for me as I run. Reaching. Running. 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.”

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

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289. “Promises are the only currency left. They must be spent wisely.”

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290. “But I think he knew in the end it wouldn’t be the lucky ones left standing. It would be the hardcore. The ones who tell Lady Luck to go screw herself. The ones with hearts of stone.”

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291. “So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.”

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292. “The answer is they didn’t. They aren’t here, Razor. They never were it’s just us. It’s always been just us.”

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293. “We call Chess the game of Kings, because through chess, we learn how to rule kings.”

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294. “It’s their world now, and we’re the aliens.”

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295. “Life is a circle bound by fear. The fear of the predator. The fear of the prey. Without fear, life would not exist.”

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296. “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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297. “Why do we always get the Evan we deserve instead of the Evan we want?”

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298. “Every face he saw was the face of a corpse-to-be. His world was peopled with living ghosts.”

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299. “The world was ripping apart. And pieces of the wreckage were raining all around me.”

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300. “I don’t know, maybe imminent peril made him feel more alive somehow, for the same reason zombies are carnivores with only one item on the menu. You never heard of undead vegetarians. Where’s the challenge in attacking a plate of asparagus?”

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