Sakura Avolon > Sakura's Quotes

“Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You be America, alien invaders, and we'll be Vietnam.
And the Others go, Yeah, okay, right.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Private Zombie, did your mother have any children that lived?"
"Sir! Yes, sir!"
"I bet when you were born she took one look at you and tried to shove you back in!”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“This is what the Others have done to us. You can’t band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“He tastes my tears before I can feel them. Where there would be tears, his kiss.
'I didn't save you,' he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. 'You saved me.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“When you love someone. Something happens to them, and it's a punch in the heart. Not like a punch in the heart; a real punch in the heart.”
― 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

“How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.”
― 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

“What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“His heart, the war.

Her face, the battlefield.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.
And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.
The Cassie who kills.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Ha-ha. The dumb jock who can’t talk the Queen’s English. I swear to God, the next person who corrects my grammar gets punched in the face.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“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