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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.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Odds, Advice

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

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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?

  Rick Yancey

  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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• God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.

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  Son, Has Beens

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, 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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• I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

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  Real, Loneliness, Opposites

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.240, Penguin UK

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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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• Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.

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  Stupid, What Is Love, Tricks

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

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  Sensitive Person, Personality, Habit

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Staying, 5th Wave

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

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• The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

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  Monsters, Demand, Definitions

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.241, 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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• 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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• There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

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  Thinking, Bullshit, Knows

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.140, Penguin

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• Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us do, but embraced them as his own, clutching them to his heart in a choke-hold grip. He did not try to escape them by denying them or drugging them or bargaining with them. He met them where they lived, in the secret place most of us keep hidden. Warthrop was Warthrop down to the marrow of his bones, for his demons defined him; they breathed the breath of life into him; and without them, he would go down, as most of us do, into the purgatorial fog of a life unrealized.

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  Running, Heart, Men

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

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  Dream, Fall, Night

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.

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  Men, Doctors, Smell

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• And 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 fiercely, like, This here? It's mine

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  Eye, Looks, Half

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.186, Penguin UK

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• And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.

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  Answers, Earth, Messages

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.32, Penguin

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• I 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 the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.

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  Eye, Men, Sharks

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.307, Penguin

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• Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

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  Prayer, Broken, Promise

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• I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.

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  Eyelashes, Tickling, Lips

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.165, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Children, Book, Thinking

  "Quickfire interview: Rick Yancey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost. His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And ran.

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  War, Heart, Battle

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.135, Penguin

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• You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

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  Mortals

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