761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him. "Um. Define okay." (Ben) "Okay means you're not bleeding to death." "I'm okay.

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

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.

Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

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?

The world is a clock winding down.