Promise Quotes by Rick Yancey

“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

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

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

There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

— Rick Yancey

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

“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

“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

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

Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.

— 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 it takes…

— 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 are but…

— Rick Yancey

“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

To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

— Rick Yancey

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

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