Quote

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.

Rick Yancey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rick Yancey
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Miami
Florida
Richard Yancey
William James Henry
Will Henry
Like
Call
Evil
Else
Someone
Everything
Nothing
Good
Normal
Would
Crazy

More quotes by Rick Yancey

Image
Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.
Rick Yancey
Image
God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.
Rick Yancey
Image
Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.
Rick Yancey
Image
I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.
Rick Yancey
Image
I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING
Rick Yancey
Image
There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.
Rick Yancey
Image
Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.
Rick Yancey
Image
Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.
Rick Yancey
Image
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.
Rick Yancey
Image
Are you okay? I (Cassie) call up to him. Um. Define okay. (Ben) Okay means you're not bleeding to death. I'm okay.
Rick Yancey
Image
It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.
Rick Yancey
Image
If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
Rick Yancey
Image
The world is a clock winding down.
Rick Yancey
Image
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.
Rick Yancey
Image
Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.
Rick Yancey
Image
I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.
Rick Yancey
Image
Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.
Rick Yancey
Image
The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.
Rick Yancey
Image
Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.
Rick Yancey
Image
Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.
Rick Yancey