761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

You want to compare yourself to an insect, Cassie? If you’re an insect, then you’re a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone. That doesn’t have anything to do with the Others. It’s always been that way. We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.

Some things you don’t have to promise. You just do.

Dad would fix this. Because that’s what dads do. They fix things.

When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn’t fully human until I saw myself in your eyes.” And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it’s my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

I found you, but in finding you, I lost myself.

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

Forgiveness is not born out of innocence or ignorance. Forgiveness is born of love.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn’t be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.