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“Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Some things down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

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

“That's my name. Not Cassie for Cassandra. Or Cassie for Cassidy. And it's not Cassie for Cassiopeia. Not anymore. I am more than her now.
I am all of them, Evan and Ben and Marika and Megan and Sam. I am Dumbo and Poundcake and Teacup. I am all the ones you emptied, the ones you corrupted, the ones you discarded, the thousands you thought you killed, but who live in me.
But I am more than this. I am all those they remember, the ones they loved, everyone they knew, and everyone they only heard about. How many are contained in me? Count the stars. Go on, number the grains of sand. That's me.
I am humanity.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's what you do when the curtain is falling â€� you give the line that the audience wants to hear.”
― Rick Yancy

“You’re the mayfly,' he murmurs.
And then Evan Walker kisses me.
Holding my hand across his chest, his other hand sliding across my neck, his touch feathery soft, sending a shiver that travels down my spine into my legs, which are having a hard time keeping me upright. I can feel his heart slamming against my palm and I can smell his breath and feel the stubble on his upper lip, a sandpapery contrast to the softness of his lips, and Evan is looking at me and I’m looking back at him.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I'm determined, when the time comes, to at least go out with clean teeth.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“He looked at me and smiled reassuringly and said, "Everything is going to be okay," because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to say and that's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance.”
― Rick Yancey

“Floods, fires, earthquakes, disease, starvation, betrayal, isolation, murder.

What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We’re pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“It doesn’t begin inside my head like I expected. Instead a delicious warmth spreads through my body, expanding from my heart outward, and my bones and muscles and skin dissolve in the warmth that spreads out from me, until the warmth overcomes the Earth and the boundaries of the universe. The warmth is everywhere and everything. My body and everything outside my body belongs to it. Then I feel him; he is in the warmth, too, and there’s no separation between us, no spot where I end and he begins, and I open up like a flower to the rain, achingly slow and dizzyingly fast, dissolving in the warmth, dissolving in him and there’s nothing to see, that’s just the convenient word he used because there is no word to describe him, he just is.
And I open to him, a flower to the rain.”
― Rick Yancey

“I think that's the way it is. When you love someone. Something happens to them, and it's a punch in the heart. Not like a punch in the heart; a real punch in the heart.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I had it all wrong. 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

“No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their children and their children's children at war against one another unto the last generation, to the end of the world.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“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 nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth, and starlight transformed the golden brown of the wheat to the colour of polished silver.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“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, not staying, 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

“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.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“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.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“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.”
― Rick Yancy

“The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.
Why didn't he finish her?
Why couldn't he finish her?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I am drowning in an infinite sea.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I am the one not running, not staying, 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

“A moment comes in war when the last lines must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold a from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I pada mi na pamet da meÄ‘u nama â€� živima i mrtvima â€� nema neke bitne razlike; sve je u glagolskom vremenu: proÅ¡li mrtvi i budući mrtvi.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Aliens are stupid. (Cassie in The 5th Wave, part one, chapter one, page one)”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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, not staying, 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

“This place can’t be heaven. It doesn’t have the right vibe.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave