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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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“Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.”

Thinking Humans Has Beens Human Beings Species Endure Edges Existential Cliffs Resilient Hiroshima Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Author:Rick Yancey

“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

“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

“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

“When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone. And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me. The Cassie who kills.”

Thinking Wonder Gone Cry Think Of Me 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!”

Thinking Aliens Beer Apocalypse 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

“There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.”

Thinking Knows Bullshit

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.”

Thinking I Can Sometimes Night Stars Sky Late Hearing Novelists Night Sky Tents Late Night Scraping 5th Wave

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected”

Thinking Believe Stills Expected

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.”

Thinking Knows May I Can Reason Silence Know How Scene Encounters Native Native American Arrivals Columbus Benign Close Encounters

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.”

Source: The Isle of Blood

About the Author

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

Books & Sources

The 5th WaveRelated source material

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The Last StarRelated source material

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