Top 450 Rick Yancey Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved – or not quite evolved enough – to bear the awful burden of its own existence.”

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302. “Once a human named Evan Walker had a dream – a dream it can no longer remember – and in that dream there was a tent in the woods and in that tent there was a girl who called herself humanity, and the girl was worth more to it than its own life.”

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303. “Turn around. I am there, one ten-thousandth of an inch outside your range of vision. I am always there. I am the faceless thing you cannot name, the nameless thing you cannot face.”

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304. “Well, thought I, he’s either sleeping or he’s dead. If the former, I dare not wake him. If the latter, I cannot!”

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305. “He is there; I feel him, one ten-thousandth of an inch outside my range of vision. I stalk him. He stalks me. The man who wrote these books is not the man who lives in them. That man is the form; Will Henry is the shadow. And now that shadow lives in me. And it lives in you.”

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306. “Ben was waiting to pounce the minute I went back inside. I knew he was ready to pounce because the minute I went back inside, he pounced.”

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307. “The lion crouches in the tall grass. The gazelle sniffs the air. The awful stillness before the strike.”

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308. “When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn’t fully human until I saw myself in your eyes.” And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it’s my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.”

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309. “Something takes over when you’re facing death. The front part of your brain lets go, gives up control to the oldest part of you, the part that takes care of your heartbeat and breathing and the blinking of your eyes. The part nature built first to keep your ass alive. The part that stretches time like a gigantic piece of toffee, making a second seem like an hour and a minute longer than a summer afternoon.”

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310. “You know what you do when you can’t stand up and march, soldier? Vosch asks. You crawl.”

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311. “I’ve always thought, if heaven is such a wonderful place, why is entering it so absurdly easy? Confess your sins, ask forgiveness – and that is all? No matter what your crimes?”

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312. “Forgiveness is not born out of innocence or ignorance. Forgiveness is born of love.”

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313. “They say no one knows the Bible better than the devil.”

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314. “Love may be nothing more than a complex interaction of hormones, conditioned behavior, and positive reinforcement, but try writing a poem or song about that.”

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315. “I don’t know what to say. So I don’t say anything. Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.”

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316. “I’ve always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.”

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317. “But there are thoughts we think in the forward part of our brains, and then there are those whose origins are much deeper, in the animal part, the part that remembers the terrors of the open savanna at night, the oldest part that was there before the primordial voice that spoke the words “I AM.”

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318. “So, I thought, this is how dead people see the world.”

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319. “I have one half of one half second to decide.”

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320. “It’s moments like those that make me want to slap him, not that slapping him would do any good, but it would make me feel better.”

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321. “It isn’t fear that will defeat them. Not fear or faith or hope or even love, but rage.”

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322. “In her dream, a large owl perches outside the window, staring at her through the glass with huge, white-rimmed eyes.”

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323. “Who cares what she was when what she is now is dead?”

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324. “Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.”

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325. “Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?”

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326. “A thousand ways. Focus on the one way.”

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327. “And humans think. They plan. They dream, and then they make the dream real.”

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328. “Her raised his face to the weeping sky, closed his dark eyes, and sighed deeply, a smile playing on his sensuous lips. “The bloody hour is come.”

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329. “If you are human, there is no hope.”

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330. “The thing about killing is you don’t know if you can actually do it until you actually do it.”

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331. “I bet you popped out of your momma with a gun in one hand and a doughnut in the other.”

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332. “And you need help with that? Feeling human?”

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333. “Crying is always easier in the dark.”

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334. “Time for the world to end.”

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335. “He lied the way a parent lies to you, the good lie that helps you go to sleep.”

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336. “Now I am the killer AND the prey, a circle of a completely different kind, and my mouth has gone dry as the sterile air, my heart as cold: The temperature of true rage is absolute zero, and mine is deeper than the ocean, wider than the universe.”

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337. “But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It isn’t fear that will defeat them. Not fear or faith or hope or even love, but rage.”

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338. “You wanted to create a human without humanity. Now you’re going to get one.”

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339. “I’d walk right up to him and blow his brains out.”

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340. “Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival.”

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341. “This is the sound of the Earth before we conquered it.”

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342. “It only takes one. Just one, and the world changes.”

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343. “In fact, I can’t even tell if I’m breathing. That’s number one on the “How do I know if I’m alive?” checklist.”

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344. “He just said don’t ask questions,” Megan whispers. “And then he asks if we have any questions.”

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345. “Doesn’t want to leave, doesn’t have an excuse to stay.”

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346. “It would be the hardcore. The ones who tell Lady Luck to go screw herself. The ones with hearts of stone. The ones who could let a hundred die so one might live. The ones who see the wisdom in torching a village in order to save it. The world was FUBAR now.”

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347. “It’s the lady, then,” he murmured.”

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348. “Books? They’re heavy and take up room in my already bulging backpack. But I have a thing about books.”

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349. “We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor’s edge.”

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350. “That night lasted a thousand years.”

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