Brian Haslett

“Priestly had fallen into that trap, caring so much that it had paralyzed him into inaction. It had finally broken him. I wasn’t going to make the same mistake.
A distant part of me was alarmed at this attitude. But this was war, and there was no use pretending like it wasn’t”
― Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods

“He leaves me with a promise. The words burn so hot in my mind, the promise follows me into the deepest hours of the night and into the days that follow.
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.
Slapping my chest over and over until my skin burns, my heart on fire. And you will be my battlefield.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Fear,' she whispers in my ear, as if she's sharing a secret. '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

“The boy who never sleeps, sleeping. Coming to rest upon the Cassiopeian shore, an island in the middle of a sea of blood. You have your promise, and I have you.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave