The Isle of Blood
Rick Yancey
Top 10 Best Quotes
“But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.”
“There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.”
“You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.”
“Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.”
“Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.”
“She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all”
“Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.”
“And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all.”
“He stiffened and said with great dignity, "I am a natural scientist. We are accustomed to dealing with shit.”
“Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.”
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Book Keywords:
light, love, hope, darkness, despair, hate
