Ringer Quotes

“Somentimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault.You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Some things down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“´Because love is irrational,´ I tell Vosh. ´It doesn´t follow rules. Not even its own rules. Love is the one thing in the universe that´s unpredictable.´”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I didn't just foster the delusions. I lived them. Even after the world crashed, I clung to them. But after he died, I told myself no more. No more brave fronts or false hopes or pretending everything's okay when nothing is. I thought I was being tough by pretending, calling it being optimistic, brave, keeping my head up or whatever bullshit seemed to fit the moment. That's not tough. That's the very definition of soft.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Because love is the most dangerous weapon in the world. It’s more unstable than uranium.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“There's nothing left to say. There's a million things left to say.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Ten thousand years to build civilization, ten months to tear it down, and each day lasted ten times longer than the one before, and the nights lasted ten times as long as the days. The only thing more excruciating than the boredom of those hours was the terror of knowing that any minute they could end.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Sometimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault. You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“One day private ringer you're going to smile at something I say and the world will break in half.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I know what you're thinking," he says.
"No. You don't."
"You're wondering if you should kiss me good-bye.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Evan is the little branch growing out of the cliff that she clings to, and the fact that he's gone makes her hang on even tighter.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“You say you know how we think? Then you know what I´m going to do. I´ll rip your face off with a pair of tweezers. I´ll tear your heart out with a sewing needle. I´ll bleed you out with seven billion tiny cuts, one for each one of us.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the heart finds what the heart seeks. In that light, Dumbo goes where his beloved Zombie goes. In that light, a boy named Ben Parish finds his baby sister. In that light, Marika saves a little girl called Teacup. In that light promises are kept, dreams realized, time redeemed.
And Zombie’s voice speeding Dumbo toward the light “You made it private. You found me.”
No darkness slamming down. No endless fall into lightlessness. All was light when I felt Dumbo’s soul break the horizon.
Lost, found, and all was light.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“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.”
― Rick Yancey

“She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touch her shoulder. Her dark hair brushes the back of my hand. Her dark eyes shine. Their brightness goes all the way down.
"You found me," she says.
I kneel beside her. I take her hand. "I found you".
"My back is broken,"she says. "I can't walk."
I slide my arms beneath her. "I'll carry you".”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Ringer, I don’t want to burst your bubble, but—”
“You don’t want to burst my bubble butt?”
“That sounded suspiciously like a joke.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Look, I probably shouldn’t tell someone holding a high-powered semiautomatic rifle this, but you’re really starting to get on my nerves.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Do you know what happened to Teacup?”
“Ran away with the spoon, what I heard.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I know they’re probably dead. And I know I’ll probably die long before I reach them, even if they’re not. But I made a promise, Razor. I didn’t think it was a promise at the time. I told myself it wasn’t. Told him it wasn’t. But there’re the things we tell ourselves about the truth, and there’re the things the truth tells about us.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Maybe you’re forgetting who saved your life,” Ringer said.
“Oh, kiss my ass.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“A naïve, thick-headed, stereotypical jock who thinks he’s God’s gift to the world when he isn’t thinking the world is God’s gift to him.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Now I am the killer AND the prey, a circle of a completely different kind, and my mouth has gone dry as the sterile air, my heart as cold: The temperature of true rage is absolute zero, and mine is deeper than the ocean, wider than the universe.”
― Rick Yancey