Abby O'Laughlin

“Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

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

“When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.
And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.
The Cassie who kills.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave