Michaela Madden > Michaela's Quotes

“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

“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

“He drops into the room, landing on the balls of his feet like a cat. I'm in his arms in the time it takes to say 'I love you,' which he does, stroking my hair, whispering my name and the words, 'My mayfly.”
― 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

“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

“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'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

“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

“Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“They can kill us, even down to the last of us, but they can’t kill—can never kill—what lasts in us.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.”
― 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

“It’s hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Don't you get it yet? The minute we decide that one person doesn't matter anymore, they've won."..."Beneath a sky crowded with a billion stars. I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Don’t decide how you feel about something before you try it.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Sometimes we expect more that people are capable of giving at the moment”
― Kasie West, On the Fence

“Life was just a collection of small decisions”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren

“Pressure is just that—pressure. It’s all in your head. It has nothing to do with what you can or can’t do.”
― Julie Cross, Whatever Life Throws at You

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“The best people all have some kind of scar.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“You know that you’ve found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it.”
― Kiera Cass, The Elite

“I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“He stood and went to read my pin as I approached. “America, is it?” he said, a smile playing on his lips.
“Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me?”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“She smiled. “Not wanting the crown means you’re probably the best person to have it.”
― Kiera Cass, The One