Rick Yancey Quotes - Page 6

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• We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

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  Clay, Masterpiece

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• Time for the world to end.

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  World, Ends

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• She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?

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  Moving, Taken, Eye

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.263, 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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• He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he’s holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he’s won fair and square.

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  Heart, Squares, Territory

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.375, Penguin

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• I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.

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  Mind, World, Want

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• He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

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  Confused, Sharks, Aftermath

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.385, Penguin

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• I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

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  Giving, Up To You, Purpose

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.160, Penguin

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• There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

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  Doors, Cells, Sometimes

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.271, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

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  Native American, Thinking, Silence

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.36, Penguin

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• We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

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  Gone, 5th Wave

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.164, Penguin

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• I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.

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  Hate, Grief, Self

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

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  War, Heart, Faces

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

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• Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

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  Personality, Habit, Cruelty

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

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• Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

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  Communication, Sarcasm, Normal

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.144, Penguin

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• I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

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  Moving, Past, Waiting

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.296, Penguin

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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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