“He had given in to hope, and that will kill you. It kills you before you die. Long before you die.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Do you know why they [demons] hate us so much, Alfred? Because of hope. They have none, and so they hate us… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It isn’t… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“This is what the Others have done to us. You can’t band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“ Human ...I don't know what that word means...Tell me what defines it. What sets it apart? Are you going to tell… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Don't you get it yet? The minute we decide that one person doesn't matter anymore, they've won."..."Beneath a sky crowded with a billion stars.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall. — Rick Yancey Copy Share
I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point. — Rick Yancey Copy Share
“I can’t leave him. I made a promise.” I start to explain it, but I don’t even know how to begin. How do I… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
“That's my big problem. That's it! Before the Arrival,guys like Evan Walker never looked twice at me, much less shot wild game for me… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey Copy Share
“He drops into the room, landing on the balls of his feet like a cat. I'm in his arms in the time it takes… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
“All things do happen for a reason... . Is this not the foundation of our faith? You are here-all of us-because we are but… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
“Her raised his face to the weeping sky, closed his dark eyes, and sighed deeply, a smile playing on his sensuous lips. "The bloody… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
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