Rick Yancey Quotes

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Tampons. I'm constantly worrying about my stash and if I'll be able to find more.

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But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

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God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.

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Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

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He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

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We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!

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

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A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

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When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

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That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

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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.

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Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

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I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

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It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

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Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

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I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

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What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

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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.

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Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.

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You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

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How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

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Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.

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I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.

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Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

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I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.

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She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?

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Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

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We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

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