Rick Yancey

And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill…

— Rick Yancey

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

— Rick Yancey

It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

— Rick Yancey

“I know a way -- I just don't know the way to the way.”

— Rick Yancey

I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through…

— Rick Yancey

“That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with…

— Rick Yancey

“He stiffened and said with great dignity, "I am a natural scientist. We are accustomed to dealing with shit.”

— Rick Yancey

“My memory has preserved what happened next as a series of snapshots, like freeze-frame stills from an art house movie, with those…

— Rick Yancey

It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he…

— Rick Yancey

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,…

— Rick Yancey

“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

“Spring. Blooms break forth from the startled earth. The sky laughs. The trees, abashed, dress themselves in verdant green. And the heavens…

— Rick Yancey

“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

“By killing us, they showed us the idiocy of stuff. The guy who owned this BMW? He’s in the same place as…

— Rick Yancey

“I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment.”

— Rick Yancey

“If you’re an insect, then you’re a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone.”

— Rick Yancey

The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who…

— Rick Yancey

“Death had brought an end to their misery. Would nothing but a visitation from that same dark angel bring and end to…

— Rick Yancey

“There is no loneliness more profound, in my experience, than being ignored by one's sole companion in life.”

— Rick Yancey

“WE ARE HUMANITY ~Ben”

— Rick Yancey

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

— Rick Yancey

“What is it about him that makes me want to slap him and kiss him, run from him and to him, throw…

— Rick Yancey

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you…

— Rick Yancey

We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous -…

— Rick Yancey

“Speaking of fruit, I'm down--I mean, he's down--to his underwear.”

— Rick Yancey