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
hero heart dragons
There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.
humanity earth humans
How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
promise
Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.
morning kissing tables
When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.
thinking brave faces
We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
prayer sleep broken
I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.
prayer broken promise
Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.
unbroken dies
Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.
native-american thinking silence
I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.
mortals
You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.
willing-to-die willing dies
To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
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?
monday book scary
There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
knives drs fingers
Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.