"You are the nest. You are the hatchling.……" — Rick Yancey
"You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will."
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139 Quotes by Rick Yancey
Rick Yancey has 139 quotes on this site.
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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
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But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to…
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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It…
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A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
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So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our…
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand…
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To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
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You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't…
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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon…
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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to…
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More Chrysalis Quotes
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
— Annie Besant
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You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis,…
— Juliette Adam
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There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into…
— Ellen Bass
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Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
— Max Muller
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The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward.…
— Edward Bellamy
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A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate…
— Susan Hill
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The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying…
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could…
— Emme
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Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature,…
— Pat Barker
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