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
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.
war heart faces
His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.
personality habit cruelty
Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
grace ignorant social
I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.
totems curse doom
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.
discipline mind action
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!
failing poet ends
Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.
beer thinking aliens
What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!
matter that-one-person minutes
The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.
survival together want
The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.
promise matter
Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.
school clay masterpiece
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
sensitive-person personality habit
Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
rude miles staring
Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.