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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
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Rick Yancey
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
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I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?
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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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His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.
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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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Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.
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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.
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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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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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Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.
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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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It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.
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There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.
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Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.
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Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.
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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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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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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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We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
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