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 Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit. Rick Yancey cruelty habit personality His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. Rick Yancey faces heart war 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. Rick Yancey hate grief self There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts. Rick Yancey cells doors sometimes A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst! Rick Yancey discipline mind action Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor. Rick Yancey smell doctors men 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. Rick Yancey army twilight memories 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! Rick Yancey jealous differences hypocrisy But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important. Rick Yancey screw-ups important fall How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care! Rick Yancey design adults care 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. Rick Yancey hate love-you long The monstrous act by definition demands a monster. Rick Yancey demand definitions monsters Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies. Rick Yancey games wings kids It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it. Rick Yancey crush shoes cockroaches Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana. Rick Yancey legs pants perfect Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight. Rick Yancey choke The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won. Rick Yancey that-one-person minutes matter 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? Rick Yancey eye taken moving There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to? Rick Yancey black world fall There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend. Rick Yancey scary monday book
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