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• It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

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  Crush, Shoes, Cockroaches

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.16, Penguin

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• Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.

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  Choke

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.378, Penguin

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• You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

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  Doubt, Trying, Littles

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• The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

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  That One Person, Matter, Minutes

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

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• Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

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  Totems, Curse, Doom

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Running, War, Humanity

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

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• A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

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  Lying, Men, Arms

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?

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  Dream, Stars, Adventure

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Willing, Willing To Die, Dies

  Twitter post from Mar 9, 2015

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• Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

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  Art, Way, Never Forget

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

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• You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

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  Ears, Clay, Masters

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.

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  Becoming, Leaving Me, Please

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.

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  Mean, Men, Differences

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

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  War, Firsts, Gears

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.64, Penguin

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• That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

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  Stupid, Philosophical, Useless

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn't cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost. His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield. With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned. And ran.

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  War, Heart, Battle

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.135, Penguin

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• I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.

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  Eyelashes, Tickling, Lips

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.165, Penguin

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• Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

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  Prayer, Broken, Promise

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• I start to unbutton his shirt. "Got to get these clothes off," I mutter. "You don't know how long I've waited to hear you say that." Smile. Lopsided. Sexy.

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  Sexy, Clothes, Long

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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.

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  Smart, Doors, Waste

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

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• Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

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  Men, Maniacs, Homicidal

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

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  Light, Darkness, Might

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.

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  Strong, Mistake, Mean

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• But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

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  Fall, Important, Screw Ups

  Richard Yancey, Rick Yancey (2005). “The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp”

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Blood, Make You Think

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