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Rick Yancey Quotes about Children

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Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

Rick Yancey
Children, Real, Monsters
Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

Rick Yancey
Children, Book, Thinking
"Quickfire interview: Rick Yancey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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.

Rick Yancey
Children, Lying, Believe
Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?

Rick Yancey
Children, Fall, Sight
Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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