5th Wave Quotes

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

  Rick Yancey

  Rude, Miles, Staring

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.32, Penguin

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• Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

  Rick Yancey

  Believe, Encounters, Outcomes

  "5 Most Shocking Moments in Sci-Fi Movies" by Rick Yancey, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

  Rick Yancey

  Humanity, Earth, Humans

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.25, Penguin

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• I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Staying

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

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• You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

  Rick Yancey

  Crazy, Evil, Would Be

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.18, Penguin

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• 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

  Thinking, Gone, Wonder

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.19, Penguin

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• But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. 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 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

  Running, War, Humanity

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

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• 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

  Found You, Way, Willing

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• To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

  Rick Yancey

  Willing, Willing To Die, Dies

  Twitter post from Mar 9, 2015

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• Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

  Rick Yancey

  Personality, Habit, Cruelty

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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• That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

  Rick Yancey

  Fall, Giving, Lines

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.45, Penguin

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• What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

  Rick Yancey

  Beer, Thinking, Aliens

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.20, Penguin

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• Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.39, Penguin

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• We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

  Rick Yancey

  Gone

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.164, Penguin

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• Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

  Rick Yancey

  Life, Past, Behinds

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.192, Penguin UK

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

  Rick Yancey

  Eating, Honestly, Cheeseburger

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.46, Penguin

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• 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.

  Rick Yancey

  Smart, Doors, Waste

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.41, Penguin

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• 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

  Answers, Earth, Messages

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.32, Penguin

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