Sam > Sam's Quotes

“Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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

“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, The 5th Wave

“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“There's an old saying about the truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.
"Roller skating, singing, and talking to girls."
"You left out stalking," I told him as he helped me out of the bed. "I can always tell when you're lurking around corners."
"You only asked for three.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing.
Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.”
― Rick Yancey , The 5th Wave

“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.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I am the one,
Not Running,
Not Staying,
But FACING”
― 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

“Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“single death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“What is it about him that makes me want to slap him and kiss him, run from him and to him, throw my arms around him and knee him in the balls, all at the same time? I'd like to blame the Arrival for the effect he has on me, but something tells me guys have been doing this to us for a lot longer than a few months.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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, The 5th Wave

“Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“He drops into the room, landing on the balls of his feet like a cat. I'm in his arms in the time it takes to say 'I love you,' which he does, stroking my hair, whispering my name and the words, 'My mayfly.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I open my mouth and the words come out. They just come out. Fuck you.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“If you're an insect, then you're a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone... 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

“It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“...We got it all wrong, there was no alien swarm descending from the sky in their flying saucers or big metal walkers like something out of Star Wars or cute little wrinkly E.T.s who just wanted to pluck a couple of leaves, eat some Reese's Pieces, and go home. That's not how it ends.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Everything's broken?" he asked Cassie. "Everything?"
"No, not everything, Sams," she answered. "Not this."
She took his hand and put it against his chest, and his pounding heart pushed fiercely against his open palm.
"Unbroken," she said.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“And I open to him, a flower to the rain.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“I know a way -- I just don't know the way to the way.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave