The 5th Wave Quotes

“The boy who never sleeps, sleeping. Coming to rest upon the Cassiopeian shore, an island in the middle of a sea of blood. You have your promise, and I have you.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Fear,' she whispers in my ear, as if she's sharing a secret. 'For the gazelle, fear of being eaten. For the lion, fear of starvation. Fear is the chain that binds them together.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Waist-deep in a drift, under a cloudless sky, the snowpack holding you upright because your legs can't anymore.
And you're going, I'm alive, I'm dead, I'm alive, I'm dead.
And there's that damn bear with its big, brown, blank, creepy eyes staring at you from its perch in the backpack, going, You lousy shit, you promised.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“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.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“He leaves me with a promise. The words burn so hot in my mind, the promise follows me into the deepest hours of the night and into the days that follow.
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.
Slapping my chest over and over until my skin burns, my heart on fire. And you will be my battlefield.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave