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But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.

Rick Yancey

Running, War, Humanity

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

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

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Totems, Curse, Doom

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

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A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

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Lying, Men, Arms

Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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The world is a clock winding down.

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World, Clock, Winding Down

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.391, Penguin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

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Willing, Willing To Die, Dies

Twitter post from Mar 9, 2015

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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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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?

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Dream, Stars, Adventure

Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

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Art, Way, Never Forget

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

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You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

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Doubt, Trying, Littles

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Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.

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Choke

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.378, Penguin

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Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him. "Um. Define okay." (Ben) "Okay means you're not bleeding to death." "I'm okay.

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Mean, Bleeding, Okay

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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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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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I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.

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Mean, Men, Differences

Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

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Stupid, Philosophical, Useless

Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.

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Missing, Sailor, Members

Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all

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Feelings, Hated, Cursed

Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

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Children, Real, Monsters

Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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