761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

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.

You say you know how we think? Then you know what I’m going to do. I’ll rip your face off with a pair of tweezers. I’ll tear your heart out with a sewing needle. I’ll bleed you out with seven billion tiny cuts, one for each one of us.That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with no humanity.In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker.

Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.

that's what you do when the curtain is falling - you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

Floods, fires, earthquakes, disease, starvation, betrayal, isolation, murder.What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us.

Sullivan ... Cassie ... in case you don’t ... I wanted to tell you ...”I waited. I didn’t push him.“They made a major mistake,” he blurted out, “the dumb bastards, when they didn’t start by killing you first.”“Benjamin Thomas Parish, that was the sweetest and most bizarre compliment anyone’s ever given me.”I kissed him on the cheek. He kissed me on the mouth.“You know,” I whispered, “a year ago, I would have sold my soul for that.”He shook his head. “Not worth it.

The wheat had survived the hail and lightning of the summer storms, but luck could not deliver it from the cold. By the time the refugees took shelter in the old house, the wheat was dead, killed by the hard fist of a deep frost.

There are only three real causes of death, Will Henry. The first is accidents - diseases, famines, wars, or like what befell your parents. The second is old age. And the third is ourselves - our slow suicides. Show me a man who cannot control his appetites, and I will show a man living under a death sentence.

Thinking about the bacon- the potential of bacon- gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't.