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Rick Yancey Quotes about Running

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If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

Rick Yancey
Running, Faces, Moral Responsibility
Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.122, Penguin

When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

Rick Yancey
Running, Giving Up, Past
Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.357, Penguin

A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

Rick Yancey
Running, Odds, Advice
Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING

Rick Yancey
Running, Staying, 5th Wave
Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us do, but embraced them as his own, clutching them to his heart in a choke-hold grip. He did not try to escape them by denying them or drugging them or bargaining with them. He met them where they lived, in the secret place most of us keep hidden. Warthrop was Warthrop down to the marrow of his bones, for his demons defined him; they breathed the breath of life into him; and without them, he would go down, as most of us do, into the purgatorial fog of a life unrealized.

Rick Yancey
Running, Heart, Men
Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

But 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
Running, War, Humanity
Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

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