Rick Yancey Quotes - Page 3

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• Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

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  Rude, Miles, Staring

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

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• Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.

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  Hours, Indispensable, Critical

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

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  Perfect, Legs, Pants

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.231, Penguin UK

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• Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

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  Promise, Matter

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

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• And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

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  War, Humanity, Lasts

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• In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.

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  Reading, Aliens, Cases

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.30, Penguin

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• In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.

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  Regret, Creepy, Barns

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• 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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  Real, Heart, Eye

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.248, Penguin UK

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• The next time you better have a good reason," I tease him. "Okay." He kisses me again. "Reason?" I ask softly. "Um. You're really pretty?" "That's a good one. I don't know if it's true, but it's good.

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  Kissing, Kiss Me, Next

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.184, Penguin UK

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• When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.

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  Morning, Kissing, Tables

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.150, Penguin

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• When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

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  Eye, Looks, Firsts

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.17, Penguin

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• A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!

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  Discipline, Mind, Action

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

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  Failing, Poet, Ends

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

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  Summer, Spring, Rain

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

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• Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

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  Thinking, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cliffs

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• My first favourite book was Are You My Mother? A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.

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  Mother, Book, Bird

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

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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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• To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.

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  Men, Differences, Monsters

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Final Descent”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

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  Believe, Encounters, Outcomes

  "5 Most Shocking Moments in Sci-Fi Movies" by Rick Yancey, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

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  Beautiful, Queens, Kings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.31, Penguin

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• Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

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  Kids, Games, Wings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.133, Penguin

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• You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

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  Home, Coming Home, Knows

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.52, Penguin

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• It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

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  Home, People, Humanity

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.134, Penguin

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• Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

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  Believe, Thinking, Expected

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.81, Penguin

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