Quotes by Rick Yancey

You know youve reached a very sad place when the only person who can make you laugh is yourself.

Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

When I cry - when I let myself cry - thats who I cry for. I dont cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie thats gone.And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.The Cassie who kills.

Ten thousand years to build civilization, ten months to tear it down, and each day lasted ten times longer than the one before, and the nights lasted ten times as long as the days. The only thing more excruciating than the boredom of those hours was the terror of knowing that any minute they could end.

In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.

Its an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

How would you rather die? she snapped. Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

Time for the world to end.

“You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.”

“How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.”

“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”

“And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben Parish rose from the dead. The eyes that impaled. The smile that slayed. In another moment, he would fade, slide back into the new Ben, the one called Zombie, and I understood something I hadn’t before: He was dead, the object of my schoolgirl desires, just as the schoolgirl who desired him was dead.”

“And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.”

“People die. Love endures.”

“Wed stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. Youd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didnt.”