761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

Alfred,” Merryweather said. “OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting!

I made a promise. The kind of promise you don’t break because, if you break it you’ve broken part of yourself, maybe the most important part.

Who needs a 12th System when you have a heart like Cassie Sullivans’s?

My anger is greater than the sum of all things lost.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all – self-centeredness in its purest form.

My name was in the wind, and the wind was high above the snowbound city. There was no difference between the sound of my name and the sound of the wind. I was in the wind and the wind was in me, and beneath us were the crystalline haloes of golden light wrapped about the streetlamps, and the muffled plops of snow falling from eaves, and the dry rattles of the dead leaves clinging to the indifferent boughs.

Funny; people die in clumps too.

That first inch was the hardest. The longest inch in the universe. The inch that stretched a thousand miles.

Life is a circle bound by fear. The fear of the predator. The fear of the prey. Without fear, life would not exist.