Quotes by Rick Yancey

“Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.”

“When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.The Cassie who kills.”

“Ten thousand years to build civilization, ten months to tear it down, and each day lasted ten times longer than the one before, and the nights lasted ten times as long as the days. The only thing m...”

“In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.”

“Time for the world to end.”

“It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!”

“How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?”

“People die. Love endures.”

“We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”

“Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.”

“But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning t...”

“You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.”

“But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.”

“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”

“And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben Parish rose from the dead. The eyes that impaled. The smile that ...”

“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”

“Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.”

“How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.”

“Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him."Um. Define okay." (Ben)"Okay means you're not bleeding to death.""I'm okay.”

“And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.”