Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am… — 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
