Rick Yancey Quotes

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• There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
• But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this…
• To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...…
• A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
• So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.
• 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 on the other…
• To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
• You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
• Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all,…
• When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
• A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is…
• How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!
• But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important.…
• I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified…
• The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.
• As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I…
• Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.
• Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the…
• There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.
• We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant…

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