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“I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The next time you better have a good reason," I tease him. "Okay." He kisses me again.
"Reason?" I ask softly. "Um. You're really pretty?"
"That's a good one. I don't know if it's true, but it's good.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Something weird," Ben said. "You would think, with ninety-nine percent of us gone, the two percent would get along better."
Um, that would be one percent, Parish.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“That's what you do when the curtain is falling - you give the line the audience wants to hear." -Cassie”
― Rick Yancy, The 5th Wave

“It's just me and the invader inside me and the dead - not just my family, but all the dead, all however-many-billion of them, reaching for me as I run. Reaching. Running. And it occurs to me that there's no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it's just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I found you, but in finding you, I lost myself.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“People die. Love endures.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Ebola”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“This here? It’s mine.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You want to compare yourself to an insect, Cassie? If you're an insect, then you're a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone. That doesn't have anything to with the Others. It's always been that way. We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave