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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 have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.”

People Ifs Thinking Children Book Age Games Enjoy Internet Lows Including Tolerance Video Boredom

Author:Rick Yancey

“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 they're out there, we better hope they never find us.”

Ifs Believe Ends I Believe Existence Novel Possibility Crisis Wave Genre Outcomes Encounters Latter Sci Fi Existential Scenarios Existential Crisis Extraterrestrial 5th Wave

Author:Rick Yancey

“A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?”

Ifs Should Children Littles Might Earth Fall Parent Sun Sea Feet Objects Eternal Lows Sight Defense Burning

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.”

Ifs Men Might Eye Lasts Seeing Tears Drawing Last Time Sharks

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

“I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.”

Ifs Eating Honestly Cheeseburger 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes you think I'm a virgin?" I asked. "You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.”

Ifs Thinking Said Blood Shock Dirt Virgins Spit Make You Think

Author:Rick Yancey

“I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Left Strong Mistake Plans Son Like You Weak Like Me Flaws Bent Mean People Unbroken

Author:Rick Yancey

“The next time you better have a good reason," I tease him. "Okay." He kisses me again. "Reason?" I ask softly. "Um. You're really pretty?" "That's a good one. I don't know if it's true, but it's good.”

Ifs Knows Reason Next Asks Kissing Okay Next Time Tease Kiss Me Really Pretty

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.”

Ifs War Lasts Humanity Battlefields

Author:Rick Yancey

“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.”

Ifs Running Faces Sooner Or Later Moral Responsibility

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?”

Ifs World Break Millions Promise

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.”

Ifs Way Humans Kind May Stills War Ends Stories Running Lasts Faces Humanity Hell Pages Standing Woods Abandoned Hunters Highways Human History Battlefields Faceless 5th Wave

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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