Rick Yancey The 5th Wave Quotes

#1. I'm determined, when the time comes, to at least go out with clean teeth.

Rick Yancey

#2. And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.

Rick Yancey

#3. If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.
It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.

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#4. I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.

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#5. The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.

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#6. Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.

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#7. Until we've killed everyone who isn't tagged." Another step. Right in front of me now. The end of the gun pressing lightly against her chest. "It's the 5th Wave, Ben.

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#8. It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

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#9. Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

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#10. I give her back an honest-to-goodness smile, the old Ben Parish smile, the one that got me practically everything I wanted. Well, not practically; I'm being modest.

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#11. The wheat had survived the hail and lightning of the summer storms, but luck could not deliver it from the cold. By the time the refugees took shelter in the old house, the wheat was dead, killed by the hard fist of a deep frost.

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#12. Five men and two women, strangers to one another on the eve of that final growing season, now bound by the unspoken promise that the least of them was greater than the sum of all of them.

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#13. You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

Kathy Freston

#14. Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Rick Yancey

#15. We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance.

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#16. Every dog has its day, but the dog with the sharpest teeth has many.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took me.

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#18. The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.
Why didn't he finish her?
Why couldn't he finish her?

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#19. How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

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#20. Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.

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#21. Stay calm. It's like chess. Move and countermove.

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#22. We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We're pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.

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#23. Floods, fires, earthquakes, disease, starvation, betrayal, isolation, murder.
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us.

Rick Yancey

#24. So on the way out, maybe I sashayed a little. Maybe I tried swinging my hips. Maybe I didn't. It's not a crime to feel pretty, after all.

Delilah S. Dawson

#25. It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Dave Barry

#26. Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive?

Rick Yancey

#27. I've decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, 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. My problem is that buried box is like a scab I can't stop picking at.

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#28. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Horace Mann