761 Quotes by Rick Yancey

Speaking of fruit, I'm down--I mean, he's down--to his underwear.

Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchling. *You* are the chrysalis. *You* are the progeny. *You* are the rot that falls from the stars. All of us--you and I and poor, dear Pellinore. Behold the face of the magnificum, child. And despair."Though I was sickened by the sight, I looked. In the bower of the beast at the top of the world, I beheld the face of the magnificum, and I did not turn away.

Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there.

The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.Why didn't he finish her?Why couldn't he finish her?

Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.

Show me a man who cannot control his appetites, and I will show a man living under a death sentence.