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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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There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?
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Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.
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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.
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He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he's holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he's won fair and square.
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But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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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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