“Do you know why our race is doomed, Pellinore? Because it has fallen in love with the pleasant fiction that we are… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“When you love someone. Something happens to them, and it's a punch in the heart. Not like a punch in the heart;… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“ Human ...I don't know what that word means...Tell me what defines it. What sets it apart? Are you going to tell… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“On the table beside me is a book entitled Love’s Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“It’s hopeless. And it’s stupid. It’s suicidal. But love is a weapon they have no answer for. They know how you think,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
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… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I prefer not to call them demons. It demeans their nature. "But isn't that what they are?" "We should pity them more… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world? Love may be nothing… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Love has a way of making us stupid, Will Henry. It blinds us to certain blatant realities, in this case the spectacularly… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“You make your whole existence dependant on another human being you’re asking for a world of trouble. Think of every tragic love… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“People change spouses more often than they clean out closets. And every time they say, 'This is the one. This is the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It isn’t… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human… — 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
