Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.
Rick YanceyMiss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.
Rick YanceyYou're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.
Rick YanceyOur enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.
Rick YanceyI brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. โโNow I lay me down to sleepโฆโโ To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasnโt sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.
Rick YanceyI assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from no illusions. I have freed myself, you see, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.
Rick Yancey