“—Cassie, no lo hagas, Cassie... —Deja... que... me vaya. —Ese es el problema: no puedo.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I am the one not running, not staying, but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I dab at the blood with some gauze from the kit, fighting back hysterical giggles. I blame it on the unbearable stress,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Because that's what you do when the curtain is falling, you say the line the audience wants to hear.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Something weird," Ben said. "You would think, with ninety-nine percent of us gone, the two percent would get along better." Um, that… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I made a promise. The kind of promise you don't break because, if you break it you've broken part of yourself, maybe… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Still I considered the M16 my bestest of besties. Always by my side, even at night, burrowed into my sleeping bag with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I've decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts… — 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
