The 5th Wave Quotes

“On the table beside me is a book entitled Love’s Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My Spectacular Washboard Abs.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It's older than the oldest person who ever lived. I should have listened to that voice.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“On the table beside me is a book entitled Love’s Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My Spectacular Washboard Abs.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.” - Stephen Hawking”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“How do you rid the Earth of humans? You rid the humans of their humanity.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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

“Oh, you're such a hopeless case, Cassie. Such a train wreck.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

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

“Fear didn’t paralyze [her], like it did some humans. Fear crystallized her reason, hardened her will, clarified her options.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Locura: la nueva normalidad.”
― Rick Yancey, La quinta ola

“That’s the flaw in Vosch’s master plan: If you don’t kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Never mind that he saved your ass more times than you can remember, or that he could have killed you a hundred times over, or that there’s something about him, something tormented and sad and terribly, terribly lonely, like he was the last person on Earth, not the girl shivering in a sleeping bag, hugging a teddy bear in a world gone quiet.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“There’s a quote from Stalin,” he says. “‘A single death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.’ Can you imagine seven billion of anything? I have trouble doing it. It pushes the limits of our ability to comprehend. And that’s exactly why they did it. Like running up the score in football. You played football, right? It isn’t about destroying our capability to fight so much as crushing our will to fight.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“You want to compare yourself to an insect, Cassie? If you’re an insect, then you’re a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone. That doesn’t have anything to do with the Others. It’s always been that way. 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, The 5th Wave

“Some things you can never leave behind. They don’t belong to the past. They belong to you.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The thing about killing is you don’t know if you can actually do it until you actually do it.”
― 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

“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

“Books? They're heavy and take up room in my already bulging backpack. But I have a thing about books.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The creepiest thing is the silence.

The Hum is gone.

You remember the Hum.

Unless you grew up on top of a mountain or lived in a cave your whole life, the Hum was always around you. That’s what life was. It was the sea we swam in. The constant sound of all the things we built to make life easy and a little less boring. The mechanical song. The electronic symphony. The Hum of all our things and all of us. Gone.

This is the sound of the Earth before we conquered it.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“He kept me from dying. Fed me, bathed me, protected me. He helped me to get strong. He even taught me how to kill. With an enemy like that, who needs friends?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The world is screaming.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“If the enemy looks just like you, how do you fight him?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Hay cosas que es imposible dejar atrás; no pertenecen al pasado, te pertenecen a ti.”
― Rick Yancey, La quinta ola

“Speaking of fruit, I'm down--I mean, he's down--to his underwear.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Run equals die. Stay equals die. So before we go all O.K. Corral on this, let's consider the third option: We blow it up.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I mean, what if they're us from the future?"
"And it's like The Terminator, right?" I said, rolling my eyes.
"They've come to stop the uprising of the machines. Or maybe they are the machines. Maybe it's Skynet.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“We stared into the eyes of death and death blinked first. Youd think that would make us feel invincible. It didnt”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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

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

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