761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

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

I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man.

To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.

Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting!

The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

The experience was like running into someone you hadn't seen since middle school - you recognize them, but what you really notice is the ways they've changed. They don't match your memory of how they should look and for a second you're thrown off, because your memory of them IS them.

This place can’t be heaven. It doesn’t have the right vibe.

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish."Slapping my chest over and over until my skin burns, my heart on fire. "And you will be my battlefield.

Wait a minute," he says, holding up one of his large handa. "A green bomb?""I'm not making this up.""Why green, though?""Because green is the color of money, grass, oak leaves, and alien bombs. How the hell would I know why it was green?