761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

It’s always been this way... We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.

Virtues are vices now, and death is the cost of love. Not the death of his body. His body was the lie. True death. The death of his humanity. The death of his soul.

For the gazelle, fear of being eaten. For the lion, fear of starvation. Fear is the chain that binds them together.

The only certainty is uncertainty, except your own death, that’s damn certain.

In the 4th Wave, you can’t trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun.

The wildest thing about holding my brother’s memories inside me? Seeing myself through his eyes, hearing myself with his ears, sailing the Cassiopeian sea in three dimensions, the way we experience practically everything except the one thing we’re supposed to understand the best: ourselves.

You don’t run from the people who need you. You fight for them. You fight beside them. No matter the cost. No matter the risk.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It’s rude.

While some people were shooting themselves and hanging themselves and swallowing handfuls of pills and jumping from high places, Dad pushed back against the darkness.