He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed. Rick Yancey More Quotes by Rick Yancey More Quotes From Rick Yancey God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called. Rick Yancey has-beens son 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. Rick Yancey heart running men 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? Rick Yancey sight children fall Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of word and deed, mere totems of the true person, who, like the gods to whom the temples were built, remains hidden. We understand our own construct; we know our own theory; we love our own fabrication. Still . . . does the artifice of our affection make our love any less real? Rick Yancey temples real mind Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever. Rick Yancey matter promise I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it. Rick Yancey cheeseburger honestly eating In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME. Rick Yancey cases aliens reading In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding. Rick Yancey barns creepy regret You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece. Rick Yancey clay masters ears Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition. Rick Yancey waste smart doors We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece. Rick Yancey masterpiece clay When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me. Rick Yancey kissing tables morning 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. Rick Yancey strong mistake mean 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. Rick Yancey territory squares heart Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me. Rick Yancey dream night fall Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me. Rick Yancey critical indispensable hours 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. Rick Yancey kiss-me next kissing I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind. Rick Yancey mind want world I start to unbutton his shirt. "Got to get these clothes off," I mutter. "You don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that." Smile. Lopsided. Sexy. Rick Yancey clothes sexy long 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. Rick Yancey eye real heart
