Rick Yancey famous quotes

03-28-2025

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.
-- Rick Yancey

#Lying #Light #Choices
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.
-- Rick Yancey

#Mean #Choices #Alternatives
So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.
-- Rick Yancey

#Mind #Crowds #Monsters
How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
-- Rick Yancey

#Humanity #Earth #Humans
If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.
-- Rick Yancey

#Running #Faces #Moral Responsibility
It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.
-- Rick Yancey

#Next #Plans
Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.
-- Rick Yancey

#Children #Real #Monsters
She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all
-- Rick Yancey

#Feelings #Hated
Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.
-- Rick Yancey

#Missing #Sailor #Members
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.
-- Rick Yancey

#Stupid #Philosophical #Useless
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.
-- Rick Yancey

#Mean #Men #Differences
Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.
-- Rick Yancey

#Stupid #What Is Love #Tricks
There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.
-- Rick Yancey

#Light #Darkness #Might
Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us do, but embraced them as his own, clutching them to his heart in a choke-hold grip. He did not try to escape them by denying them or drugging them or bargaining with them. He met them where they lived, in the secret place most of us keep hidden. Warthrop was Warthrop down to the marrow of his bones, for his demons defined him; they breathed the breath of life into him; and without them, he would go down, as most of us do, into the purgatorial fog of a life unrealized.
-- Rick Yancey

#Running #Heart #Men
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after allâ€”self-centeredness in its purest form.
-- Rick Yancey

#Self #Centeredness #Pity
Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.
-- Rick Yancey

#Men
A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost. His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And ran.
-- Rick Yancey

#War #Heart #Battle
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?
-- Rick Yancey

#Fall #Black #World
Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.
-- Rick Yancey

#Prayer #Broken #Promise
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.
-- Rick Yancey

#Curse #Doom #Humans
We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
-- Rick Yancey

#Clay #Masterpiece
When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.
-- Rick Yancey

#Morning #Kissing #Tables
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.
-- Rick Yancey

#Children #Lying #Believe
I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from no illusions. I have freed myself, you see, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.
-- Rick Yancey

#Men #Order #Essence
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.
-- Rick Yancey

#Becoming #Leaving Me #Please
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.
-- Rick Yancey

#Enemy #Poison #Assumption
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if theyre out there, we better hope they never find us.
-- Rick Yancey

#Believe #Outcomes #Encounters

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