The world is a clock winding down. Rick Yancey More Quotes by Rick Yancey More Quotes From Rick Yancey What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet? Rick Yancey stars dream adventure It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans. Rick Yancey gears war firsts I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters. Rick Yancey care stars life 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. Rick Yancey bullshit knows thinking I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING Rick Yancey 5th-wave staying running It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity. Rick Yancey humanity home people The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes. Rick Yancey survival together want Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected Rick Yancey expected believe thinking Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him. "Um. Define okay." (Ben) "Okay means you're not bleeding to death." "I'm okay. Rick Yancey bleeding okay mean You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it Rick Yancey doubt littles trying Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. Rick Yancey totems curse doom If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second? Rick Yancey break promise world 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 degrees girl people 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. Rick Yancey humanity running war A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails. Rick Yancey arms men lying Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well. Rick Yancey never-forget way art There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall. Rick Yancey terrible wonderful remember That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid. Rick Yancey philosophical useless stupid Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain. Rick Yancey members sailor missing She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all Rick Yancey cursed hated feelings
