Brian Yansky > Quotes

“It takes less time for them to conquer the world than it takes for me to brush my teeth. That's pretty disappointing." Jesse from ALIEN INVASION & OTHER INCONVENIENCES.”
― Brian Yansky

“You don’t mess with someone’s dog. You just don’t.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“Idecided to go to the town cemetery to think. Cemeteries had always been good places for me. They were quiet.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“I’m pretty sure heroes don’t whine. They quietly endure cold, fireless nights. Further proof I’m no hero.”
― Brian Yansky, Homicidal Aliens and Other Disappointments

“I guess I knew nothing would. I needed to go back to 2013. Beyonce, the Super Bowl halftime show, the Boston Marathon bombings, Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones 2013. And most importantly to me, the death of Master Lee.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Time Machine

“I’ve got to convince my friends that I’m right. Of course I’m aware of one little problem. If I’m wrong, we all die.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“Rules should be viewed with suspicion first and acceptance second.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“course, someone needed to be blamed when things went wrong, and the new guy or the new gal was certainly there for that purpose. Then there was the fear that always came with losing a grip on things. Mix that with a proper scapegoat, and you could have a combustible situation where a number of foolish things could happen.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Monster

“You mean you have a natural inclination,” I said. “Maybe I do too, but I choose not to give into it. A lot of evil is just selfishness.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“It was like I was getting assignments from the universe. The voice wasn’t always just in dreams. Sometimes a crow would talk to me or a person who seemed in a trance. Once it was a statue of Abraham Lincoln. Some people might say they were from god but which one? There were thousands. I did think it was an older god, if it was a god. A new one would have texted.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“A drink to a thirsty man is hope pushing out despair.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“Funny how a big, horrible worry doesn’t wipe out all the little worries. They’re like bugs. They survive no matter what.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“... the illusion of safety I didn’t even know I was feeling – the safety of being in a group, the safety of numbers – disappears.”
― Brian Yansky, Homicidal Aliens and Other Disappointments

“When a bad thing happens, a terrible thing, you feel it all the time, but you don’t have a choice after a while. You go on anyway. I never would have understood that before. It’s something I would have been happy to live my whole life without understanding.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“I feel one thing. I’m tired of running. I want to fight. No matter what, I want to fight.”
― Brian Yansky, Homicidal Aliens and Other Disappointments

“Libraries had magic in them. What was inside books was magic. Written language was how we talked to dead people, important ones from the past. How we listened to them, anyway. And in the present too and maybe in the future. It was all there in the written word.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Knife of Death

“He said he could run me in for vagrancy. It was a crime to have no money. That was America for you. The cop, a nice guy, ended up giving me a few dollars and told me about a shelter. That was America for you, too.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“It takes less time for them to conquer the world than it takes for me to brush my teeth. That's pretty disappointing.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“Fighting monsters was one thing, but public speaking, that was really scary.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“Dude, I’ve known people who pretend to be crazy, but you, my friend, are the real deal.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“But quite a few rules were made by someone hoping to use the rule to benefit themselves, and even a good rule could sometimes be applied in a bad way. Rules should be viewed with suspicion first and acceptance second.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“thousand directions.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“Survival is important, but even so, I’m still thinking about that almost-kiss as I head off to my room.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“To hold on to the hate for over a century, though, to hold it so close that they were willing to risk everything for revenge after all these years, reminded me of how important it was to let certain things go. Some things you just had to accept the loss and move on.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Witch

“The alien and I sense each other – mentally. He’s surprised that I can sense him, and I’m surprised, too, It’s like the volume of my telepatchi power has been turned up.”
― Brian Yansky, Homicidal Aliens and Other Disappointments

“It’s so quiet. More than anything, the silence makes me feel what I’ve lost. The Earth is no longer ours.”
― Brian Yansky, Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences

“Oh, please,” the cat said. “You are his favored creation here on Earth, yes. Perhaps one of the top in this universe, even. But who does he allow to travel through time, like moving from room to room in one of your houses? Who is by far the most beautiful creature in the universes?” These were rhetorical questions, and I refused to answer them. It earned me a terrible cat smile. “Favored indeed. Now you know.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Time Machine

“I had gone to sleep on a grassy patch and woke up in the morgue. Obviously, the city was sending me a message, and it wasn’t subtle. Leave. As an orphan, it wasn’t my first experience with being unwanted.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian of the Haunted Library

“There were days that started in such a way that you knew the safest bet was to crawl back into bed and pull the covers up over your head.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Book Thief

“You think he means to conquer us?” Rip said. “I think he means to protect Eden, but that may now mean, to him, that he has to conquer it to protect it. You know, protect it from itself. That kind of thing that dictators sometimes say.”
― Brian Yansky, The Librarian and the Monster