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Rick Yancey is an American novelist known for his young adult literature. His works often blend elements of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure, and are highly favored by young readers.

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“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.”

Men Persons Suffering Order Rooms Illusion Essence Burden Admire Purity Sane Prey Pretense Aboriginal

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

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

Knows Humans Shapes Size Flesh Monsters Appetite

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

“We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.”

Hunters Bait

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

“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.”

Way Want Persons Shows Running Wish Advice Female Gender Odds Words Of Advice

Book:The Curse of the Wendigo

Source: The Curse of the Wendigo

“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.”

Girl Color Red Dresses Rose Apples Pretty Girl Summertime

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

“Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.”

Thinking Way Dies Laughing Comfort Husband Died Best Way Widows Your Husband Second Best

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

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

May Waiting Empty

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.”

Fingers Knives Drs Butchers

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

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

Mean Home Gone Desks

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

“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.”

May Mean Fall Stars Nests Progeny Chrysalis

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

“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.”

Reason Enemy Evidence Killing Conclusion Assumption Poison Irrational False Assumptions

Author:Rick Yancey

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

Stills Light Lying Choices Darkness Despair Realistic Our Choices

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

“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.”

Knows Humans Know How One Thing Becoming Please Leaving Me Precipice

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.”

Light Might Darkness Labor

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

“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.”

Knows Stupid Tricks Defined Bother Fallen Denied What Is Love

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“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.”

Men Way Mean Differences My Own Our Lives Mines Ears Pursuit One Way Dedicated Ridicule Mock Phantoms

Book:The Monstrumologist

Source: The Monstrumologist

“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.”

Said Stupid Philosophical Useless Not Stupid Stupid Questions Philosophical Questions

Book:The Monstrumologist

Source: The Monstrumologist

“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.”

Young Enjoy Missing Members Mark Entertaining Civilians Sailor

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all”

Feelings Hated Cursed

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.”

Children Real Happens Dear Monsters Basements

Book:The Monstrumologist

Source: The Monstrumologist

“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.”

Men Trying Heart Running Secret Wonder Mets Breaths Bones Defined Demon Fog Choke Bargaining Marrow Secret Places

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.”

Self Form Pity Egotism Self Pity Self Centeredness Centeredness

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

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

Men Maniacs Homicidal

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

“The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.”

Men Made Doctors Drinking Imbeciles

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

“There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.”

Remember Wonderful Terrible Recalls

Book:The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo

Source: The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo

“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.”

Long Stars Memories Cold Ancient Rhythm March Everlasting Symphony August Spun

Book:The Curse of the Wendigo

Source: The Curse of the Wendigo

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

Social Grace Raised Ignorant Social Graces

Book:The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo

Source: The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo

“Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.”

Loss Secret Society

Book:The Curse of the Wendigo

Source: The Curse of the Wendigo

“That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.”

Want Giving Fall Lines Audience Curtains 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“It's an either/or world now.”

World Either Or

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.”

Heart Jobs Break

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.”

Life Past Behinds 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Ifs Would Be Evil Crazy Normal Be Good Good And Evil 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness.”

Reason Light Lying Desire Darkness Despair Slave Falsehood Bondage Be A Slave

Author:Rick Yancey

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

Ifs Able Worry Tampons

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Gone 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.”

Self Spirit Hate Grief Teach Empty Guilt Finals Pity Vengeance Cunning Self Pity Parish Love Death

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.”

Heart War Faces Battlefields Total War

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”

Personality Habit Cruelty Traits Personality Traits 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

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

Humans Earth Humanity 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

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

Ifs Trouble Communication Normal Sarcasm

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.”

Sometimes Doors Thousand Setting Settings Cells Bolts Slam Old Saying

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Knows Mean Sometimes Choices Know How Alternatives

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Faces Brave Invincible

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Said Felt Prayer Sleep Broken Promise Bed Lays Noise Broken Promises

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Giving Shows Purpose Figures Purpose Of Life Up To You

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.”

Fall Shoulders Climbs

Author:Rick Yancey

“When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.”

Ifs Giving Moments Running Past Faces Turns Giving Up Get Up That Moment Your Past

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“Time for the world to end.”

World Ends

Author:Rick Yancey

“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?”

Ifs Looks Doe Two Matter Light Eye Moving Sides Taken Happened Possibility Chess Look At Me Zombie Exclusive Light Up Does It Matter

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

About the Author

Born: November 4, 1962
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 275

Books & Sources

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