Life is full of little ironies, but it’s also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.
– Rick Yancey
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- How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time. – Rick Yancey
- Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield. – Rick Yancey
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- We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We’re pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes. – Rick Yancey
- Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no. – Rick Yancey
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- To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for. – Rick Yancey
- We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature? – Rick Yancey
- In the 4th Wave, you can’t trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun. – Rick Yancey
- With an enemy like that, who needs friends? – Rick Yancey
- Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.And if this is humanity’s last war, then I am the battlefield. – Rick Yancey
- The monstrous act by definition demands a monster. – Rick Yancey
- I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment. – Rick Yancey
- Sometimes in my tent, last at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping, against the sky. – Rick Yancey
- The answer is they didn’t. They aren’t here, Razor. They never were it’s just us. It’s always been just us. – Rick Yancey
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- There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to. – Rick Yancey
- Crazy people. They never think they’re crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them. – Rick Yancey
- Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too. – Rick Yancey
- He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him. – Rick Yancey
- Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune’s slings and arrows. – Rick Yancey
- The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth. – Rick Yancey
- I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn’t like me. – Rick Yancey
- Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross. – Rick Yancey
- If the enemy looks just like you, how do you fight him? – Rick Yancey
- Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things. – Rick Yancey
- Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt. – Rick Yancey