Rick Yancey Quotes - Page 4

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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, 5th Wave

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

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• I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.

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  Hate, Grief, Self

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

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• His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

  Rick Yancey

  War, Heart, Faces

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

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

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  Personality, Habit, Cruelty

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

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• Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

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  Communication, Sarcasm, Normal

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.144, Penguin

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• There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

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  Doors, Cells, Sometimes

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.271, Penguin

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• I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.

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  Prayer, Sleep, Broken

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.68, Penguin

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• I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

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  Giving, Up To You, Purpose

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.160, Penguin

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• Time for the world to end.

  Rick Yancey

  World, Ends

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• She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?

  Rick Yancey

  Moving, Taken, Eye

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.263, Penguin

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• Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie?

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  Enemy, Know How, Knows

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.80, Penguin

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• After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my feet a couple inches off the ground as I kick furiously with my heels, twisting my head back and forth, snapping at his forearm with my teeth. And the whole time his lips tickling the delicate skin of my ear. "Cassie. Don't. Cassie..." "Let...me...go." "That's been the whole problem. I can't.

  Rick Yancey

  Crush, Couple, Feet

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

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  Beer, Thinking, Aliens

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

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

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  Rude, Miles, Staring

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

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  Smart, Doors, Waste

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

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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.

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  Eating, Honestly, Cheeseburger

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

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  Promise, Matter

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

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• I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

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  Moving, Past, Waiting

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.296, Penguin

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• He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

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  Confused, Sharks, Aftermath

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.385, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Mind, World, Want

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• He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he’s holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he’s won fair and square.

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  Heart, Squares, Territory

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.375, Penguin

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• The next time you better have a good reason," I tease him. "Okay." He kisses me again. "Reason?" I ask softly. "Um. You're really pretty?" "That's a good one. I don't know if it's true, but it's good.

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  Kissing, Kiss Me, Next

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.184, Penguin UK

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