Quotes by Rick Yancey

“I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It's older than the oldest person who ever lived. I should have listened to that voice.”

“Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.”

“His other hand finds my cheek, and he wipes away my tears with his thumb. The chocolate scent overwhelms me as he bends over and whispers in my ear, No, Cassie. No, no, no.I throw my arm around his...”

“I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn't like me.”

“Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.”

“If the enemy looks just like you, how do you fight him?”

“Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolvedor not quite evolved enoughto bear the awful burden of its own existence.”

“Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things.”

“Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt.”

“So cold your tears freeze against your cheeks.'It's not my fault,' I told Bear. 'I don't make the weather. You got a beef, take it up with God.' That's what I've been doing a lot lately: taking it ...”

“It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.”

“I should have asked, I guess, he says. I shouldnt have assumed.What?He rotates around on his butt to face me. Me on the sofa, him on the floor, looking up. That I was going with you.What? We werent...”

“We're all dead...Some of us are just a little further along than others.”

“And it occurs to me that theres no real difference between us, the living and the dead; its just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead.”

“Cassie?Its Sammy, holding on to Ben, because hes feeling the Ben thing a little more than he is the Cassie one at the moment. Whos this guy falling from the ductwork, and whats he doing with my sis...”

“They say no one knows the Bible better than the devil.”

“I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the baconthe potential of bacongives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.”

“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my fathers study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece ...”

“If you leave without me, Ill just follow you. You cant stop me, Cassie. How are you going to stop me?I shrug helplessly, fighting back tears. Shoot you, I guess.Like you shot the Crucifix Soldier?T...”

“People change spouses more often than they clean out closets. And every time they say, 'This is the one. This is the person I'm going to spend eternity with.' Then forty or fifty years go by and yo...”