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Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.

Rick Yancey

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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
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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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Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.
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Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.
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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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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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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 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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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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I had it all wrong, he says. Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.
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He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he’s holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he’s won fair and square.
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In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.
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It isn't up to me to break his heart that's time's job.
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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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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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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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