761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

You have good instincts,trust them. Thinking through every step is fine if you're playing chess, but this isn't chess.

But there are thoughts we think in the forward part of our brains, and then there are those whose origins are much deeper, in the animal part, the part that remembers the terrors of the open savanna at night, the oldest part that was there before the primordial voice that spoke the words “I AM.

Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.

The world is a clock winding down.I hear it in the wind’s icy fingers scratching against the window. I smell it in the mildewed carpeting and the rotting wallpaper of the old hotel. And I feel it in Teacup’s chest as she sleeps. The hammering of her heart, the rhythm of her breath, warm in the freezing air, the clock winding down.

For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question

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

This is what the Others have done to us. You can’t band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.