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Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows. — Rick Yancey

I'm hoping to pass for one of Vosch's tween recruits, but I probably look more like GI Joe's little sister playing dress up — Rick Yancey

I couldn't decide who was more annoying, the fanatic or the cynic. — Rick Yancey

Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive? — Rick Yancey

I found you, but in finding you, I lost myself. — Rick Yancey

Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world? — Rick Yancey

Humans are social animals. They cluster like bees. — Rick Yancey

the man with the rifle watches the stars as if waiting for them to shake loose from the black and tumble to the Earth. Why — Rick Yancey

A church that lives by power dies by power. — Philip Yancey

You will never understand." "You may be right. But it is my human imperative to try. — Rick Yancey

Don't judge Christ by those of us who imperfectly bear his name. — Philip Yancey

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. — Rick Yancey

It was about killing us. All of us. — Rick Yancey

That's the flaw in Vosch's master plan: If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak. — Rick Yancey

If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel. — Philip Yancey

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves. — Philip Yancey

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. — Philip Yancey

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view. — Philip Yancey

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God. — Philip Yancey

Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another. — Philip Yancey

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time. — Philip Yancey

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? — Philip Yancey

A thousand ways. Focus on the one way. — Rick Yancey

Forgiveness is not born out of innocence or ignorance. Forgiveness is born of love. — Rick Yancey

And, in the end, we lie awake And we dream of making our escape. — Rick Yancey

There was not breaking through the lie because accepting the truth would break them. — Rick Yancey

The world begins again. Humanity owes its existence to a bit of cosmic whimsy. To a rock. It — Rick Yancey

Some things, down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things. — Rick Yancey

We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time. — Rick Yancey

Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove: It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic. — Rick Yancey

Because love is the most dangerous weapon in the world. It's more unstable than uranium. — Rick Yancey

I didn't know until then that rage had a taste and it tasted like your own blood. — Rick Yancey

He's entitled to his opinion, but that's all it is. An opinion. — Rick Yancey

When you're out of options, the best option is to do nothing. Play dead. The possum option. — Rick Yancey

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you. — Rick Yancey

Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them. — Rick Yancey

That's how it'll go down. Those will be the last words of the last one left. I am human. — Rick Yancey

England is home to one of the most unattractive people on earth!" He glared at Walker. "You are the perfect example. — Rick Yancey

We stared into the eyes of death and death blinked first. Youd think that would make us feel invincible. It didnt — Rick Yancey

The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us. — Rick Yancey

Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there. — Rick Yancey

There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light. — Rick Yancey

You know how it is Al- we got no choice when it comes to parents and some of them are woefully underqualified. — Rick Yancey

Remember, Will Henry, some falsehoods are borne of necessity not foolishness. — Rick Yancey

It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism. — Philip Yancey

Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service. — Philip Yancey

Are you crying, Ringer?"
"My eyes are watering."
"No."
"Don't tell me no, Razor. I don't cry."
"Bullshit. — Rick Yancey

Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into — Philip Yancey

Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon. — Philip Yancey

I am a shark. A shark who dreamed he was a man. — Rick Yancey

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love. — Philip Yancey

I am a scientist, and therefore an absolute realist. — Rick Yancey

The future of humanity belongs to the hardcore. — Rick Yancey

The Eye will take care of her. — Rick Yancey

There's nothing left to say. There's a million things left to say. — Rick Yancey

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. — Philip Yancey

According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity. — Philip Yancey

Because we're too hard to kill. We're invista ... investra ... invinta ... " "Invincible?" "That's it!" With a reassuring pat on my arm. "Invincible. — Rick Yancey

He fell in love, and love is the only weakness. — Rick Yancey

But there're the things we tell ourselves about the truth, and there're the things the truth tells about us. — Rick Yancey

We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature? — Rick Yancey

To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me. — Rick Yancey

Homeless people bear God's image too. — Philip Yancey

the story of a queen named Cassiopeia who lived forever on a throne in the sky. — Rick Yancey

One of those questions you don't want to know the answer to, but still have to ask. — Rick Yancey

He showed me how enormous the emptiness was by filling it. — Rick Yancey

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME. — Rick Yancey

And then Evan Walker kisses me. — Rick Yancey

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves. — Rick Yancey

And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us. — Rick Yancey

His heart, the war.

Her face, the battlefield. — Rick Yancey

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

we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood. — Rick Yancey

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through. — Philip Yancey

We don't have passports. — Rick Yancey

Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever. — Rick Yancey

reeking of sewage and rotting corpses, burned-out shells of houses, feral dogs — Rick Yancey

Run equals die. Stay equals die. So before we go all O.K. Corral on this, let's consider the third option: We blow it up. — Rick Yancey

Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration. — Philip Yancey

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals. — Philip Yancey

I confessed I did not have an opinion; I was only thirteen, and this was my very first dismemberment. — Rick Yancey

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul. — Philip Yancey

I would far rather convey grace than explain it. — Philip Yancey

The only certainty is uncertainty, except your own death, that's damn certain. — Rick Yancey

In her dream, a large owl perches outside the window, staring at her through the glass with huge, white-rimmed eyes. — Rick Yancey

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. — Philip Yancey

No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house cards collapses. — Rick Yancey

For some, death is the midwife to faith. For others, it is faith's executioner. — Rick Yancey

The only way to stay alive is to stay alone. That's rule number two. — Rick Yancey

We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe. — Rick Yancey

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry. — Philip Yancey

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes. — Rick Yancey

I was never very good at history, but I was pretty sure douchebags like Hitler didn't laugh very much. — Rick Yancey

Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there. — Rick Yancey

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.1 - Philip Yancey — Lisa Harper

Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure. — Philip Yancey

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love. — Philip Yancey

If there was any hope left, it lay in love's hopeless promises. — Rick Yancey

It was a ludicrous notion, born of panic, but no panic is ludicrous in its particular moment. Panic possesses its own logical integrity. — Rick Yancey

The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us. — Rick Yancey