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
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.
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.
communication sarcasm normal
Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.
world either-or
It's an either/or world now.
memories twilight army
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.
grace ignorant social
I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.
loss secret-society
Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.
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!
children book thinking
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.