“Private Zombie, did your mother have any children that lived?" "Sir! Yes, sir!" "I bet when you were born she took one… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“They made a major mistake," he blurted out, "the dumb bastards, when they didn't start by killing you first." "Benjamin Thomas Parish,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who… — 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
