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But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Rick Yancey

Lying, Light, Choices

Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Rick Yancey

Mean, Choices, Alternatives

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.97, Penguin

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

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Stars, Night, Thinking

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

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So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

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Mind, Monsters, Crowds

Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Crazy, Evil, Would Be

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

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It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

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Mean, Guarantees That, Yesterday

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.386, Penguin

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It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

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Next, Plans, Hard

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

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There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.

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Hero, Heart, Dragons

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We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness.

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Lying, Light, Darkness

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

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Life, Past, Behinds

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

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Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

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Animal, Meals, Alive

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.28, Penguin

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A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

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Running, Odds, Advice

Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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

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Humanity, Earth, Humans

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

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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

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Stars, Stupid, Mean

Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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

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Running, Staying, 5th Wave

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

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Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

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Waiting, May, Empty

Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.

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Stupid, What Is Love, Tricks

Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Thinking, Gone, Wonder

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

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I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

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Real, Loneliness, Opposites

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.240, Penguin UK

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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.

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Found You, Way, Willing

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When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

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Running, Giving Up, Past

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.357, Penguin

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The kid who didn't go back when he should have and now goes back when he shouldn't. The kid called Zombie, who made a promise, and if he breaks that promise, the war is over - not the big war, but the war that matters, the one in the battlefield of his heart. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

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War, Kids, Heart

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.278, Penguin

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What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

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School, Clay, Masterpiece

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If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

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Running, Faces, Moral Responsibility

Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.122, Penguin

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You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

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Stars, Fall, Mean

Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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