761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

The shadow raised its arm high in the air and I knew – I knew before I heard my name – that he’d found me again, keeper of the promise he couldn’t make, the one I had marked with my blood and who had marked me with his tears, a Silencer all right, my silencer, stumbling toward me in the impossibly pure light of a late winter’s sunrise promising spring.

Ben was waiting to pounce the minute I went back inside. I knew he was ready to pounce because the minute I went back inside, he pounced.

You’re never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.

Without trust there’s no cooperation. And without cooperation there’s no progress. History stops.

The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they’re scattered up, down and sideways.

In a thousand years, you could hold the entirety of the city in the palm of your hand.

The foundation of all life, often obscured, never lost. Joy.

One of those questions you don’t want to know the answer to, but still have to ask.

Turn around. I am there, one ten-thousandth of an inch outside your range of vision. I am always there. I am the faceless thing you cannot name, the nameless thing you cannot face.