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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
Time
Break
Jobs
Heart

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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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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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Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.
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When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes. And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.
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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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You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it
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The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise, and if he breaks that promise, the war is over - not the big war, but the war that matters, the one in the battlefield of his heart. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.
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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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The world is a clock winding down.
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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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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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The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.
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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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In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.
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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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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 things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.
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If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
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There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.
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