761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

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    It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

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    God doesn’t call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.

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    There’s nothing left to say. There’s a million things left to say.

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    Some things you can never leave behind. They don’t belong to the past. They belong to you.

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    It isn’t that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It’s that the truth is too hideous to face.

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    He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn’t react. Doesn’t seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

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    But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that’s important.

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    And in more than half the pictures, she isn’t looking at the camera; she’s looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It’s mine.

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    You’re mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

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