Rick Yancey Quotes

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• But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Light, Choices

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Rick Yancey

  Mean, Choices, Alternatives

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.97, Penguin

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• Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

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  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.39, Penguin

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• 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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  Mind, Monsters, Crowds

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

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  Crazy, Evil, Would Be

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.18, Penguin

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• It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

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  Next, Plans, Hard

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.39, Penguin

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• There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.

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  Hero, Heart, Dragons

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• It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

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  Mean, Guarantees That, Yesterday

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.386, Penguin

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• If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

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  Running, Faces, Moral Responsibility

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.122, Penguin

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• You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

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  Stars, Fall, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

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  Humanity, Earth, Humans

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.25, Penguin

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• We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Light, Darkness

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• Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

  Rick Yancey

  Life, Past, Behinds

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.192, Penguin UK

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• To 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 our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

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  Stars, Stupid, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

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  Animal, Meals, Alive

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.28, Penguin

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• Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of word and deed, mere totems of the true person, who, like the gods to whom the temples were built, remains hidden. We understand our own construct; we know our own theory; we love our own fabrication. Still . . . does the artifice of our affection make our love any less real?

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  Real, Mind, Temples

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.

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  Unbroken, Dies

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.202, Penguin

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• A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

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  Running, Odds, Advice

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

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  School, Clay, Masterpiece

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• It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

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  Beautiful, Lying, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.158, Penguin

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• When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

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  Running, Giving Up, Past

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.357, Penguin

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

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  Waiting, May, Empty

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Brave, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.67, Penguin

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• The 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 the big war, but the war that matters, the one in the battlefield of his heart. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

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  War, Kids, Heart

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.278, Penguin

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• I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING

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  Running, Staying, 5th Wave

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

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