You can only call someone crazy if thereโs someone else whoโs normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.
Rick YanceyBut hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.
Rick YanceyHuman beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.
Rick YanceyAfterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing.' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry." He did not say what the best way was.
Rick YanceyI'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.
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