“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
Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“It is a detestable vice not entirely limited to children. Always speak the truth, all the truth in all things at all… — 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
A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“He knew the truth. Yes, my dear child, he would undoubtedly tell a terrified toddler tremulously seeking succor, monsters are real. I… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“None of it had prepared him, however, for this naked confrontation with gross injustice, this horrific reminder that despite all the honors… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“The question haunts me still, and will, I suppose, until I join my parents in our final reunion. If the doctor had… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
