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
crush shoes way
It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.
choke
Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.
doubt trying littles
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
promise world break
If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
girl people degrees
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.
monday book scary
There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
running war humanity
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.
stars stupid mean
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.
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.
husband thinking laughing
Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.
girl color apples
And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all.
running odds advice
A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.