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. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“There is no loneliness more profound, in my experience, than being ignored by one's sole companion in life.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not… — 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
“When that moment comes-and it always come- when you life teeters between getting up and giving up, when you can't get up… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“When that moment comes- and it always comes- when your life teeters between giving up and getting up, when you can't give… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“You make your whole existence dependant on another human being you’re asking for a world of trouble. Think of every tragic love… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“We have gone far in our public places to push death aside, to consign it to a dusty corner, but in the… — 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
