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
dream stars adventure
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?
choke
Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.
monday book scary
There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
feelings hated cursed
She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all
knives drs fingers
Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.
waiting may empty
Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.
shapes flesh size
But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.
bait hunters
We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.
self centeredness pity
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
drinking men doctors
The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.
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!
doors cells sometimes
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.
remember wonderful terrible
There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.
worry tampons able
Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.