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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.

Rick Yancey

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Rick Yancey
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Miami
Florida
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When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.
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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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In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE 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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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 don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.
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Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.
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Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.
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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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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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I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING
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The world is a clock winding down.
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It isn't up to me to break his heart that's time's job.
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I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.
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