Rick Yancey

“WE ARE HUMANITY ~Ben”

— Rick Yancey

“Climb onto my shoulders.”

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Time for the world to end.

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“Don't just die then, die trying. ”

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And then Evan Walker kisses me.

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“It's the lady, then," he murmured.”

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“Locura: la nueva normalidad.”

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“Oculus Dei, the eyes of God.”

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“Is this how humanity waves good-bye? Hell no.”

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To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.

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“I'd walk right up to him and blow his brains out.”

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

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God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.

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“You invited me here to slay dragons, did you not? Well. That's what I'm trying to do.”

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If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

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In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.

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But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling…

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That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

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You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then…

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If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running…

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You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

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As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving…

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“He had given in to hope, and that will kill you. It kills you before you die. Long before you die.”

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“Why the devil are you going again? To save the doctor. Save him from what? Whatever he needs saving from. I'm his…

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'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal…

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“The uncertainty of my own experience is crushing. I am drowning in an infinite sea. Sinking slowly, the weight of the lightless…

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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…

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“...We got it all wrong, there was no alien swarm descending from the sky in their flying saucers or big metal walkers…

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“It is a dark and dirty business, Will Henry. And you are well on your way." He patted my knee, not to…

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“What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff…

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Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart.…

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When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not…

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“The Great Gatsby's my favorite book," he says. "F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated it to Zelda." "His wife?" I say. "Yeah. His crazy-ass…

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“I prefer not to call them demons. It demeans their nature. "But isn't that what they are?" "We should pity them more…

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“It is a very thin line between us and the abyss, Will Henry,' he said. 'For most it is like that line…

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We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous -…

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“How much we thought all of it did. You know what really matters?” He waits for my answer. I feel as if…

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After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my feet a couple…

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“In the beginning there was a war. Before there were men or green fields or the untamed sea. Before there was anything…

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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…

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