761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

The 12th System can protect you from the pain that afflicts your body, but it’s helpless against the pain that crushes your soul.

No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their children and their children’s children at war against one another unto the last generation, to the end of the world.

The next thing you do when the plug’s pulled, after panicking, is run to the nearest window. You don’t know why exactly. It’s that better-see-what’s-going-on feeling. The world works from the outside in. So if the lights go off, you look outside.

What doesn’t kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You’re beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

There was not breaking through the lie because accepting the truth would break them.

Empty the vessel of hope and faith and trust and you can fill it with anything you like. They.

I couldn’t outrun them. I couldn’t outgun them. Maybe I could outsmart them.

What are our memories but the ultimate proof that we exist?

The golden light and the dark trees glistening with ice and the way the air smells on cold mornings. The things we leave behind and the things that never leave us. The world ended once. It will end again. The world ends, then the world comes back. The world always comes back.