Rick Yancey
Rick Yancey
Richard "Rick" Yancey is an American author who has gained acclaim for his works of suspense, fantasy, and science fiction aimed at young adults...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 November 1962
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
children fall sight
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?
jealous differences hypocrisy
We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!
memories twilight army
Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the long-sought-after peace of our twilight years.
definitions monsters demand
The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.
men smell doctors
Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.
hate love-you long
As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you...to make my love bearable.
silly ideas justified
I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.
self centeredness pity
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
men maniacs homicidal
Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.
personality habit cruelty
Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
hate grief self
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.
gone 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.
worry tampons able
Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.
life past behinds
Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.