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I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING
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
Will Henry
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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.
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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.
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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 minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.
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I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.
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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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His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.
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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.
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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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Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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