{"author":"Rick Yancey","author_id":"Rick+Yancey","total_quotes":148,"quotes":[{"text":"I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It's older than the oldest person who ever lived. I should have listened to that voice.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["philosophical","poetic-prose"],"id":2371,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved—or not quite evolved enough—to bear the awful burden of its own existence.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["madness"],"id":4132,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"You're safe here. Perfectly safe. That phrase still haunts me. Haunts me because it's always been a lie. It was a lie before they came and it's still a lie. You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything. Otherwise, you're just a walking corpse. You're a zombie.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["life","risk","safety"],"id":5309,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["rick-yancey","the-5th-wave","words"],"id":7061,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"Zombie!” Sammy calls. “I knew it was you.”Zombie?“Where are you taking him?” Ben says to me in a deep voice. I don’t remember it being that deep. Is my memory bad or is he lowering it on purpose, to sound older?“Zombie, that’s Cassie,” Sam chides him. “You know—Cassie.”“Cassie?” Like he’s never heard the name before.“Zombie?” I say, because I really haven’t heard that name before.I pull off the cap, thinking it might help him recognize me, then immediately regret it. I know what my hair must look like.“We go to the same high school,” I say, drawing my fingers hastily through my chopped-off locks. “I sit in front of you in Honors Chemistry.”Ben shakes his head like he’s clearing out the cobwebs.Sammy goes, “I told you she was coming.”“Quiet, Sam,” I scold him.“Sam?” Ben asks.“My name is Nugget now, Cassie,” Sam informs me.“Well, sure it is.” I turn to Ben. “You know my brother.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["ben-parish","cassie-sullivan","names","nugget","recognize","remember","sam-sullivan","zombie"],"id":8007,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["change","post-apocalyptic","ringer","vincit-qui-patitur","water"],"id":8951,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["hate"],"id":9870,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running, not staying, but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["humanity","rick-yancey","the-5th-wave"],"id":11868,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["chess","complex","dance","elegant","life-and-death","savage"],"id":19914,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, you’re left with humans with no humanity.In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker.","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["humanity","rick-yancey","the-infinite-sea"],"id":21901,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":148,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}