Rick Yancey Quotes - Page 3

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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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• How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

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  Design, Adults, Care

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• As 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.

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  Hate, Love You, Long

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• Memories 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 our twilight years.

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  Memories, Twilight, Army

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!

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  Jealous, Differences, Hypocrisy

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?

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  Children, Fall, Sight

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.

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  Children, Lying, Believe

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• I 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, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.

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  Men, Order, Essence

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

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  Monsters, Shapes, Flesh

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.

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  Bait, Hunters

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• And 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.

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  Girl, Color, Apples

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.

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  Husband, Thinking, Laughing

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.

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  Knives, Drs, Butchers

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

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  Home, Mean, Gone

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

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  Enemy, Poison, Assumption

  "The Monstrumologist". Book by Rick Yancey, September 22, 2009.

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• Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.

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  Becoming, Leaving Me, Please

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

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  Light, Darkness, Might

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

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  Self, Centeredness, Pity

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

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  Men, Maniacs, Homicidal

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Drinking, Men, Doctors

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

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  Remember, Wonderful, Terrible

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

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  Grace, Ignorant, Social

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• It's an either/or world now.

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  World, Either Or

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.51, Penguin

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• It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

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  Jobs, Heart, Break

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.201, Penguin

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• Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.

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  Worry, Tampons, Able

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.29, Penguin

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