Quotes by Rick Yancey

“I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.”

“There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to.”

“I'm a little panicky when I realize he's not here. It's a lot easier to push down my doubt when he's with me. When I can see those eyes the color of melted chocolate and hear his deep voice that fa...”

“They were afraid the longer we pretended to be human, the more human we would become.And who would want that?I didnt think I would, he admits. Until I became one.When youwoke up in Evan?He shakes h...”

“And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchling. *You* are the chrysalis. *You* are the progeny. *You* are the rot that falls from the stars. ...”

“They made a major mistake," he blurted out, "the dumb bastards, when they didn't start by killing you first.""Benjamin Thomas Parish, that was the sweetest and most bizarre compliment anyone's ever...”

“To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.”

“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. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.”

“The world is a clock winding down.I hear it in the winds icy fingers scratching against the window. I smell it in the mildewed carpeting and the rotting wallpaper of the old hotel. And I feel it in...”

“In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and, if it is feminine, she's not the kind of woman you c...”

“I want him to touch me again. I want to feel his hands, as soft as clouds. But Im afraid if he touches me, all seven billion billion billion atoms that make up my body will blow apart and scatter a...”

“We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge.”

“Lets establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means youd like to come in. Two means youre just stopping by to spy on me while I sleep. His eyes travel from my face to m...”

“Do you know a way out of here? I ask Ben. Sammys more trusting than I am, but the ideas worth exploring. Finding the escape podsif they even existhas always been the weakest part of my getaway plan...”

“It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look friendly; she looked like she was going to throw up.”

“The bent but unbroken ones.”

“It kills me. The way he trusted. LIke the way we trusted before they came and blue the whole goddamned world apart. Trusted that when it got dark there would be light. Trusted that when you wanted ...”

“The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long.”

“It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.”

“With an enemy like that, who needs friends?”