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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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“You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.”

Heart Risk Safe Human Safety Perfectly Safe

Book:The Last Star

Source: The Last Star

“There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.”

Heart Waiting Hero Dragons

Author:Rick Yancey

“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

“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

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

Heart War Faces Battlefields Total War

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Ifs Heart War Moments Lasts Faces Lost Lines Cry Battle Demand Crosses Dear Ran Hunters Battlefields Total War

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise, and if he breaks that promise, the war is over - not the big war, but the war that matters, the one in the battlefield of his heart. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.”

Ifs Should Heart Made War Matter Bigs Kids Break Promise Should Have Zombie Battlefields Back When

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Heart Hard My Heart Fairs Fingers Spread Territory Squares

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“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.”

Humans Heart Real Eye Turns Break Saws Tears His Eyes Heart Break Human Eyes Real Human

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

About the Author

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

Books & Sources

The 5th WaveRelated source material

The Infinite SeaRelated source material

The Last StarRelated source material

The Monstrumologist: The Terror BeneathRelated source material

The Isle of BloodRelated source material

The MonstrumologistRelated source material

The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th WaveRelated source material

The Monstrumologist: The Isle of BloodRelated source material

The Curse of the WendigoRelated source material

The Final DescentRelated source material

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