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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!
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It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.
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The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's 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 contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.
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She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all
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You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.
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You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.
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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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I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.
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Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.
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There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.
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And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all.
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Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
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I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.
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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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The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise, and if he breaks that promise, the war is over - not the big war, but the war that matters, the one in the battlefield of his heart. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.
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It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.
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As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you...to make my love bearable.
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There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.
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I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.
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A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?
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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 let the story end this way. 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 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.
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Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
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I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. 'Now I lay me down to sleep…' To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn't sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Richard "Rick" Yancey is an American author who has gained acclaim for his works of suspense, fantasy, and science fiction aimed at young adults.
Known for:
The 5th Wave
The Last Star
The Infinite Sea
The Monstrumologist
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
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