“Love 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 from The Last Star
“It's always been this way...We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“Some things down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“They sat on the back porch and looked at the stars while Zombie told the story of a queen named Cassiopeia who lived forever on a throne in the sky.
“But her throne’s tilted down,” Sam said, looking at the constellation. “Won’t she fall out?”
Zombie cleared his throat. “She won’t fall. Her throne is turned that way so she can keep watch over her realm.”
“What’s a realm?”
Zombie pressed his hand against Sam’s chest.
“This is.” Zombie’s hand to Sam’s heart. “Here.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“But I am even 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 from The Last Star
“Our hearts, the war.
Her body, the battlefield.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“So there you go. You can love the good in us and hate the bad, but the bad is in us, too. Without it, we wouldn’t be us.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“Once a human named Evan Walker had a dream—a dream it can no longer remember—and in that dream there was a tent in the woods and in that tent there was a girl who called herself humanity, and the girl was worth more to it than its own life.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“No matter how well you know someone, there's still a part of them you won't. You can't. Like, ever. A locked room. I don't know.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“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.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“She traveled the world and wrote books and took lovers and broke hearts. She didn't allow life just to happen to her. She punched and pummeled and beat the living shit out of it. She mauled it.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“Thinking about the bacon - the potential of bacon - gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“Because love is the most dangerous weapon in the world. It’s more unstable than uranium.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“There's nothing fated in our stars. No meant-to-be in any of it. We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe. And that's okay. These seven billion billion atoms are good with that.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“There's a part of me that's convinced this everlasting war will end when I coax a smile out of that girl.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“Hello, Earth.
So this is how God sees you, sparkling blue against the dullest black. No wonder he made you. No wonder he made the sun and the stars so he could see you.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“He was a finisher who could not finish. He was the heart of a hunter who lacked the heart to kill.
In her journal she had written I am humanity, and something in those three words split him in two.
She was the may fly, here for a day, then gone. She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.
Erase the human.
In a burst of blinding light, the star Cassiopeia exploded and the world went black.
Evan Walker had been undone.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“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 from The Last Star
“But the most wonderful thing of all, our highest achievement and the one thing for which I pray we will always be remembered, is stuffing wads of polyester into an anatomically incorrect, cartoonish ideal of one of nature's most fearsome predators for no other reason than to soothe a child.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“Why do we always get the Evan we deserve instead of the Evan we want?”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world?”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“Let no one despair,
even though in the darkest night
the last star of hope my disappear.
—Friedrich Schiller”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“This was it, the thing between us, the thing neither of us could put our fingers on, the unbreakable bond between love and fear. Evan's the love. I am the fear.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“That'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 from The Last Star
“Life is a circle bound by fear. The fear of the predator. The fear of the prey. Without fear, life would not exist.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
“It only takes one. Just one, and the world changes.”
― Rick Yancey, quote from The Last Star
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