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It isn't up to me to break his heart that's time's job.

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Rick Yancey
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Miami
Florida
Richard Yancey
William James Henry
Will Henry
Heart
Time
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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
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Afterward I told his widow, Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry. He did not say what the best way was.
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Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.
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When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.
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I had it all wrong, he says. Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.
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Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.
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In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.
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A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
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I am a shark, Cassie, he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. A shark who dreamed he was a man.
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Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.
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You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.
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I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.
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Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.
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Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.
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I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.
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You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.
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You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.
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He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.
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Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.
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If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
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