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Rick Yancey is an acclaimed American author known for his imaginative and thought-provoking works in fantasy, science fiction, and young adult fiction. His novels explore survival, identity, and human resilience, inspiring readers to confront challenges with courage and creativity. Yancey's storytelling combines suspense, depth, and emotion, motivating audiences to think critically and engage with life fully. His work empowers aspiring writers and readers alike, leaving a lasting impact on literature and the imagination.
"You know you've reached a very sad place when the only person who can make you laugh is yourself."
"For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question."
"The world will burn for a hundred years. Fire will consume the things we made from wood and plastic and rubber and cloth, then water and wind and time will chew the stone and steel into dust. How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they needed was Mother Nature and time."
"The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable."
"Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end."
"The world is a clock winding down.I hear it in the wind's icy fingers scratching against the window. I smell it in the mildewed carpeting and the rotting wallpaper of the old hotel. And I feel it in Teacup's chest as she sleeps. The hammering of her heart, the rhythm of her breath, warm in the freezing air, the clock winding down."
"It kills me. The way he trusted. LIke the way we trusted before they came and blue the whole goddamned world apart. Trusted that when it got dark there would be light. Trusted that when you wanted a fucking strawberry Frappuccino you could plop your ass in the car, drive down the streed, and get yourself a fucking strawberry Frappuccino!"
"Let's establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you'd like to come in. Two means you're just stopping by to spy on me while I sleep. His eyes travel from my face to my shirt (which happens to be his shirt) to my bare legs, lingering a breath too long before returning to my face. His gaze is warm. My legs are cold.Then he knocks once on the jamb. But it's the smile that gets him in."
"We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time."
"If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength."
"In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun."
"Libraries, museums, universities, everything we designed and built over six thousand years. 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."