Rick Yancey

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we…

— Rick Yancey

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will…

— Rick Yancey

“The monstrumologist laughed, and lifted his face toward the bleeding sky.”

— Rick Yancey

“I might have kissed her here," said Pellinore Warthrop to himself--the fugitive, the prisoner. "I do not remember.”

— Rick Yancey

“How much we thought all of it did. You know what really matters?” He waits for my answer. I feel as if…

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Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the…

— Rick Yancey

“When that moment comes-and it always come- when you life teeters between getting up and giving up, when you can't get up…

— Rick Yancey

The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after…

— Rick Yancey

“It is a dark and dirty business, Will Henry. And you are well on your way." He patted my knee, not to…

— Rick Yancey

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

— Rick Yancey

“I am more than the sum of my fear.”

— Rick Yancey

“Private Zombie, did your mother have any children that lived?" "Sir! Yes, sir!" "I bet when you were born she took one…

— Rick Yancey

“The Great Gatsby's my favorite book," he says. "F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated it to Zelda." "His wife?" I say. "Yeah. His crazy-ass…

— Rick Yancey

Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of…

— Rick Yancey

When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are…

— Rick Yancey

But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the…

— Rick Yancey

I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We…

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We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.

— Rick Yancey

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary…

— Rick Yancey

“single death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”

— Rick Yancey

“But that’s all it is, a coincidence. There’s no divine plan. There’s nothing fated in our stars. No meant-to-be in any of…

— Rick Yancey

Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.

— Rick Yancey

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

— Rick Yancey

“Oh, you're such a hopeless case, Cassie. Such a train wreck.”

— Rick Yancey

“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