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“I am all of them, Evan and Ben and Marika and Megan and Sam. I am Dumbo and Poundcake and Teacup. I am all the ones you emptied, the ones you corrupted, the ones you discarded, the thousands you thought you killed, but who live in me.
But I am more than this. I am all those they remember, the ones they loved, everyone they knew, and everyone they only heard about. How many are contained in me? Count the stars. Go on, number the grains of sand. That's me.
I am humanity.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“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

“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

“How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“His heart, the war.

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

“When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house cards collapses.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing.
Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

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

“Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The world ended once. It will end again. The world ends, then the world comes back. The world always comes back.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Somentimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault.You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“´Because love is irrational,´ I tell Vosh. ´It doesn´t follow rules. Not even its own rules. Love is the one thing in the universe that´s unpredictable.´”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Some things, down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“It's always been this way...We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“Our hearts, the war.
Her body, the battlefield.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“Thinking about the bacon - the potential of bacon - gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“He was a finisher who could not finish. He was the heart of a hunter who lacked the heart to kill.

In her journal she had written I am humanity, and something in those three words split him in two.

She was the may fly, here for a day, then gone. She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.

Erase the human.

In a burst of blinding light, the star Cassiopeia exploded and the world went black.

Evan Walker had been undone.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“Hello, Earth.
So this is how God sees you, sparkling blue against the dullest black. No wonder he made you. No wonder he made the sun and the stars so he could see you.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world?”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“This was it, the thing between us, the thing neither of us could put our fingers on, the unbreakable bond between love and fear. Evan's the love. I am the fear.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden