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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: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Miami
Florida
Richard Yancey
William James Henry
Will Henry
Time
Break
Jobs
Heart

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Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.
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Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
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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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Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.
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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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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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Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.
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The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.
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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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His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.
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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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The next time you better have a good reason, I tease him. Okay. He kisses me again. Reason? I ask softly. Um. You're really pretty? That's a good one. I don't know if it's true, but it's good.
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It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.
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Good God, man, what is that smell? He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. Life, answered the doctor.
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There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.
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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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And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.
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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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Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.
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If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.
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