Sidra Ibad > Sidra's Quotes

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

“Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

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

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

“The thing about killing is you don’t know if you can actually do it until you actually do it.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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

“This is murder, what they’re doing to us. A very slow, very cruel murder, killing us from our souls outward, and I remember the commander’s words: It isn’t about destroying our capability to fight so much as crushing our will to fight.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Talking about the problem had replaced actually doing something about it.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You don’t feel like it’s going to happen to you…until it happens to you.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“They’ve flipped the natural order on us, boy. Better to die than live. Better to give up than fight. Better to hide than face. They know the way to break us is to kill us first here.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Cassie?”
It’s Sammy, holding on to Ben, because he’s feeling the Ben thing a little more than he is the Cassie one at the moment. Who’s this guy falling from the ductwork, and what’s he doing with my sister?
“This must be Sammy,” Evan says.
“This is Sammy,” I say. “Oh! And this is—”
“Ben Parish,” Ben says.
“Ben Parish?” Evan looks at me. That Ben Parish?
“Ben,” I say, my face on fire. I want to laugh and crawl under the counter at the same time. “This is Evan Walker.”
“Is he your boyfriend?” Sammy asks.
I don’t know what to say. Ben looks totally lost, Evan completely amused, and Sammy just damned curious. It’s my first truly awkward moment in the alien lair, and I’d been through my share of moments.
“He’s a friend from high school,” I mutter.
And Evan corrects me, since it’s clear I’ve lost my mind. “Actually, Sam, Ben is Cassie’s friend from high school.”
“She’s not my friend,” Ben says. “I mean, I guess I kind of remember her…” Then Evan’s words sink in. “How do you know who I am?”
“He doesn’t!” I fairly shout.
Cassie told me about you,” Evan says. I elbow him in the ribs, and he gives me a look like What?
“Maybe we can chat about how everybody knows one another later”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“She stays away from his dreams, as if she knows not to go there, because dreams are not real but feel more than real when you’re dreaming them. She loves him too much to do that.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I give her my best smile. Before the alien Armageddon happened, I was known for my smile. Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove. It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic. But it has absolutely no effect on Ringer. She doesn't squint in its overwhelming luminescence. She doesn't even blink.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“For the gazelle, fear of being eaten. For the lion, fear of starvation. Fear is the chain that binds them together.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my arms. She choked to death on her own blood. And there was nothing I could do. It makes me sick, the way you act as if the worst disaster in human history somehow revolves around you. You’re not the only one who’s lost everything—not the only one who thinks they’ve found the one thing that makes any of this shit make sense. You have your promise to Sammy, and I have you.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Okay. What if we were the last two people on Earth?” “Then you’d still end up being the last, because I’d kill myself.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You can’t be who you say you are because who you say you are could not have done what you did!”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You have good instincts,trust them. Thinking through every step is fine if you're playing chess, but this isn't chess.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I’d hate to see the look on my face when that mask came down and I saw the face behind it. Thinner than I remember. Paler. The eyes sunk deep into their sockets, kind of glazed over, like he’s sick or hurt, but I recognize it, I know whose face was hidden behind that mask. I just can’t process it.
Here, in this place. A thousand years later and a million miles from the halls of George Barnard High School. Here, in the belly of the beast at the bottom of the world, standing right in front of me.
Benjamin Thomas Parish.
And Cassiopeia Marie Sullivan, having a full-bore out-of-body experience, seeing herself seeing him. The last time she saw him was in their high school gymnasium after the lights went out, and then only the back of his head, and the only times that she’s seen him since happened in her mind, the rational part of which always knew Ben Parish was dead like everyone else.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Like any omnipresent smell—or rather, like anything omnipresent—you get used to it; you stop smelling it after a while. Same is true for your other senses. And your soul.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Doesn’t want to leave, doesn’t have an excuse to stay.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I’m making myself strong for…what? So when I go down, at least I go down strong? What difference does that make?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I want to crack him in the head and burst into tears at the same time. I’ve reached the point of being tired of being tired.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You left her. When she needed you, you ran. And you’re still running. Don’t you think it’s time you stop running and fight for her?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Who cares what she was when what she is now is dead?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”
― David Levithan, Every You, Every Me

“This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.”
― David Levithan, Every You, Every Me

“The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.”
― David Levithan, Every Day