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Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.
Rick Yancey
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Rick Yancey
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Miami
Florida
Richard Yancey
William James Henry
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God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.
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Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.
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Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.
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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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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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When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.
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Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
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