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But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Rick Yancey
Lying, Light, Choices
Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness.

Rick Yancey
Lying, Light, Darkness

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

Rick Yancey
Beautiful, Lying, Faces
Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.158, Penguin

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

Rick Yancey
Lying, Men, Arms
Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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

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