Rick Yancey

“The only truth is the truth of the now. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. There…

— Rick Yancey

“No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human…

— Rick Yancey

“Death had brought an end to their misery. Would nothing but a visitation from that same dark angel bring and end to…

— Rick Yancey

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there…

— Rick Yancey

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

— Rick Yancey

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

— Rick Yancey

“There is no loneliness more profound, in my experience, than being ignored by one's sole companion in life.”

— Rick Yancey

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

— Rick Yancey

“I can’t leave him. I made a promise.” I start to explain it, but I don’t even know how to begin. How…

— Rick Yancey

Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or…

— Rick Yancey

“Oh my son! My son!" von Helrung cried. Now it was his turn to crush my master to his chest. "William! Your…

— Rick Yancey

“Though I understand the theology behind it, the image does not bring me peace; it makes me feel sorry for the lion.…

— Rick Yancey

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with…

— Rick Yancey

A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the…

— Rick Yancey

“That's it," he said bitterly. "Cry, Cassie. Cry for her. Cry for all the children. They can't hear you and they can't…

— Rick Yancey

He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem…

— Rick Yancey

I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long…

— Rick Yancey

“My memory has preserved what happened next as a series of snapshots, like freeze-frame stills from an art house movie, with those…

— Rick Yancey

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way.…

— Rick Yancey

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we…

— Rick Yancey

How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we…

— Rick Yancey

Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You…

— Rick Yancey

“We often take vengeance long after the fact upon blameless surrogates, reprising the same sins of the ones who trespassed against us,…

— Rick Yancey

“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

“And there was his face against the smudged glass and his smile as he rocketed across a galaxy far, far away in…

— Rick Yancey

Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am…

— Rick Yancey

“You and everyone else on the planet," I said. "Nobody actually knows, and they won't tell us, so everybody sits around guessing…

— Rick Yancey

“He drops into the room, landing on the balls of his feet like a cat. I'm in his arms in the time…

— Rick Yancey

“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

“Oh, very well," he said crossly. "Come along if you must, but please keep quiet so I may think. I need to…

— Rick Yancey

When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry…

— Rick Yancey

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to…

— Rick Yancey

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

“None of it had prepared him, however, for this naked confrontation with gross injustice, this horrific reminder that despite all the honors…

— Rick Yancey

“Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network…

— Rick Yancey

“He had noticed my bandaged hand. "An accident," Warthrop said tersely. "Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife." Von…

— Rick Yancey

My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel,…

— Rick Yancey

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

“I left them there for the flies and the birds and the sun and the wind. In the silence outside the Tour…

— Rick Yancey

“The only truth is the truth of the now. ' there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.'…

— Rick Yancey