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“Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.”
― 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

“His heart, the war.

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

“I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

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

“It's an either/or world now.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I'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.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals.
Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I start to unbutton his shirt. "Got to get these clothes off," I mutter. "You don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that." Smile. Lopsided. Sexy.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise, and if he breaks that promise, the war is over - not the big war, but the war that matters, the one in the battlefield of his heart.
Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him.
"Um. Define okay." (Ben)
"Okay means you're not bleeding to death."
"I'm okay.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Time for the world to end.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“single death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I open my mouth and the words come out. They just come out. Fuck you.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I made a promise. The kind of promise you don't break because, if you break it you've broken part of yourself, maybe the most important part.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“And then Evan Walker kisses me.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I know a way -- I just don't know the way to the way.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Are pervs only pervs if you don’t find them attractive?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Don't just die then, die trying. ”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I can’t leave him. I made a promise.” I start to explain it, but I don’t even know how to begin. How do I put it into words? It isn’t possible. It’s like locating the starting point of a circle. Or finding the first link in a silver chain. “I ran one time,” I finally say. “I’m not running again.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Still I considered the M16 my bestest of besties. Always by my side, even at night, burrowed into my sleeping bag with me, faithful and true. In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun.
Shhh, Cassie. It's close.
Close”
― 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

“Fear didn’t paralyze [her], like it did some humans. Fear crystallized her reason, hardened her will, clarified her options.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I'm determined, when the time comes, to at least go out with clean teeth.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The world is screaming.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave