The 5th Wave Quotes

“We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo.
And we will be your masterpiece.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Who are you Evan? If that's evan your name. Even your name.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Private Zombie, did your mother have any children that lived?"
"Sir! Yes, sir!"
"I bet when you were born she took one look at you and tried to shove you back in!”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You be America, alien invaders, and we'll be Vietnam.
And the Others go, Yeah, okay, right.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I'm one, too," he said.

"What?"

He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin."

What a shock.

"What makes you think I'm a virgin?" I asked.

"You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I dab at the blood with some gauze from the kit, fighting back hysterical giggles. I blame it on the unbearable stress, not on the fact that I'm wiping Evan Walker's ass.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“This is what the Others have done to us. You can’t band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Because that's what you do when the curtain is falling, you say the line the audience wants to hear.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“He tastes my tears before I can feel them. Where there would be tears, his kiss.
'I didn't save you,' he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. 'You saved me.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“It's been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes the memory remains: the awareness of the gazelle, the instinct of the antelope. The wind whispers through the grass. A shadow flits between the trees. And up speaks the little voice that goes. Shhhh, it's close now. Close.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“He had given in to hope, and that will kill you. It kills you before you die. Long before you die.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“It’s hopeless. And it’s stupid. It’s suicidal. But love is a weapon they have no answer for. They know how you think, but they can’t know what you feel.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I'm just like you. I'm scared and I'm angry and I'm confused and I don't know what the hell I'm going to do, but I do know you can't have it both ways. You can't say you're a human in one breath and a cockroach in the next.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Don't just die then, die trying. ”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Are pervs only pervs if you don’t find them attractive?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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

“When you're out of options, the best option is to do nothing. Play dead. The possum option.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Para resistir, debes encontrar algo por lo que estés dispuesto a morir.”
― Rick Yancey, La quinta ola

“Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You and everyone else on the planet," I said. "Nobody actually knows, and they won't tell us, so everybody sits around guessing and theorizing, and it's all kind of pointless. Maybe they're spacefaring micemen from Planet Cheese and they've come for our provolone.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

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

“I can’t leave him. I made a promise.” I start to explain it, but I don’t even know how to begin. How do I put it into words? It isn’t possible. It’s like locating the starting point of a circle. Or finding the first link in a silver chain. “I ran one time,” I finally say. “I’m not running again.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave