Marika Quotes

“Do you remember the woman I told you about?"

I knew we would get back around to this. I'd been dying to know more. "The one who used your body then threw you away like a toothbrush you had to use to clean the toilet because you couldn't find your scrub brush?"

"Well, yeah."

"And then you saw her out a year later and she'd had a baby who just happened to have your eyes?"

"That's the one."

"No. I don't remember you mentioning her.”
― Darynda Jones, Sixth Grave on the Edge

“There's nothing left to say. There's a million things left to say.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Ten thousand years to build civilization, ten months to tear it down, and each day lasted ten times longer than the one before, and the nights lasted ten times as long as the days. The only thing more excruciating than the boredom of those hours was the terror of knowing that any minute they could end.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“One day private ringer you're going to smile at something I say and the world will break in half.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I know what you're thinking," he says.
"No. You don't."
"You're wondering if you should kiss me good-bye.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Ringer, I don’t want to burst your bubble, but—”
“You don’t want to burst my bubble butt?”
“That sounded suspiciously like a joke.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Do you know what happened to Teacup?”
“Ran away with the spoon, what I heard.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea