“Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there.”
Rick Yancey“We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge.”
Rick Yancey“Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.”
Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist“These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed.But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets.The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me.”
Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist“The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class.”
Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist“Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.”
Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave“I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running, not staying, but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield”
Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave“That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with no humanity.In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker”
Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea“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.”
Rick Yancey, The Curse of the Wendigo“If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.”
Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave“That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with no humanity.In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker.”
Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea