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
humanity earth humans
How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
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.
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.
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.
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!