Emily

“Imprisoned for ten millennia inside its limitless mind, now finite. Now free.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“He turned his back to her, inviting the bullet. He was mad, after all, and madness came with its own armor”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“And something else. Something shocking. Not horror. Not sorrow. No confusion or pain or fear. None of the things she must have found in Wonderland.

Instead, her eyes, her face, her entire body has ignited with the opposite of all those things, there all along, unconquerable, undefeatable, immortal. The root of her courage. The foundation of all life, often obscured, never lost.

Joy.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“Long, nimble fingers clawing at my shirt, the fingers of an artist. Face sculpted by the merciless knife of hunger, the infuriated artist with the helpless clay, and the red eyes rimmed in black.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea