Emily

“The ancients had a saying for this, vincit qui patitur, and it applied to the vanquished as well as to the victor. To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature’s ladder.”
― 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

“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

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