761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

One day private ringer you’re going to smile at something I say and the world will break in half.

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.

Somebody in the back of the room squealed. Classic. It doesn’t matter what time of day it happens – the power goes out, and somebody yelps like the building’s collapsing.

The one sure way of not being alone was wanting to be alone.

The world was ripping apart. And pieces of the wreckage were raining all around me.

When that moment comes-and it always come- when you life teeters between getting up and giving up, when you can’t get up and you can’t give up either, here’s what you do... crawl.

A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won’t fall, burning, into the sea?

In her dream, a large owl perches outside the window, staring at her through the glass with huge, white-rimmed eyes.

He looked at me and smiled reassuringly and said, “Everything is going to be okay,” because that’s what I wanted him to say and it’s what he wanted to say and that’s what you do when the curtain is falling – you give the line that the audience wants to hear.