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So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.
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And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.
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Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.
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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.
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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.
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Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.
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Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.
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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.
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Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.
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Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.
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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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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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