Rick Yancey

A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what…

— Rick Yancey

“If you're an insect, then you're a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone... It's always been that way. We're here,…

— Rick Yancey

“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

“But that’s all it is, a coincidence. There’s no divine plan. There’s nothing fated in our stars. No meant-to-be in any of…

— Rick Yancey

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer…

— Rick Yancey

“What is it about him that makes me want to slap him and kiss him, run from him and to him, throw…

— Rick Yancey

“No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their children and their children's children at…

— Rick Yancey

What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited…

— Rick Yancey

“I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It's older than the…

— Rick Yancey

“We are hunters all. We are, all of us, monstrumologists. And Pellinore Warthrop was the best of us, for he had found…

— Rick Yancey

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of…

— Rick Yancey

“All things do happen for a reason... . Is this not the foundation of our faith? You are here-all of us-because we…

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“Still I considered the M16 my bestest of besties. Always by my side, even at night, burrowed into my sleeping bag with…

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I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To…

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“That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with…

— Rick Yancey

Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the…

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“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…

— Rick Yancey

Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've…

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The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who…

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“It's just me and the invader inside me and the dead- not just my family, but all the dead, all however-many-billion of…

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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and…

— Rick Yancey

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than…

— Rick Yancey