02UndatedWe’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
03UndatedLove is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
04UndatedBut if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. 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 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.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
05UndatedYou never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
06UndatedBut hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
07UndatedWe'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.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
08UndatedAnd, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben Parish rose from the dead. The eyes that impaled. The smile that slayed. In another moment, he would fade, slide back into the new Ben, the one called Zombie, and I understood something I hadn’t before: He was dead, the object of my schoolgirl desires, just as the schoolgirl who desired him was dead.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
10UndatedCities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
11UndatedHow baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
12UndatedAre you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him."Um. Define okay." (Ben)"Okay means you're not bleeding to death.""I'm okay.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
16UndatedThe experience was like running into someone you hadn't seen since middle school - you recognize them, but what you really notice is the ways they've changed. They don't match your memory of how they should look and for a second you're thrown off, because your memory of them IS them.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
17UndatedI 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.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
19UndatedWithout trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
20UndatedThat’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, motherfuckerRick Yancey / quote ↗
21UndatedOnto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten steel.I am humanityHe crawled.I am humanity.He fell.I am humanity.He got up.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
22UndatedEverything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's what you do when the curtain is falling — you give the line that the audience wants to hear.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
23UndatedThat's my name. Not Cassie for Cassandra. Or Cassie for Cassidy. And it's not Cassie for Cassiopeia. Not anymore. I am more than her now.I am all of them, Evan and Ben and Marika and Megan and Sam. I am Dumbo and Poundcake and Teacup. I am all the ones you emptied, the ones you corrupted, the ones you discarded, the thousands you thought you killed, but who live in me.But I am more than this. I am all those they remember, the ones they loved, everyone they knew, and everyone they only heard about. How many are contained in me? Count the stars. Go on, number the grains of sand. That's me.I am humanity.Rick Yancey / quote ↗
24UndatedIt's the ancient instinct: In times of great danger, be wary of strangers. Trust no one outside your circle. But there's another instinct, far older, as old as life itself, nearly impossible for the human mind to override: Protect the young at all costs. Preserve the future." - VoschRick Yancey / quote ↗
