Five Survive Quotes

“I’m sorry I didn’t try harder to protect you. I’m sorry I never got to tell you. I’m sorry I never kissed you.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“What if I said you were the right people, in the right place at exactly the right time.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“One sniper. One gun. One red dot. And one liar.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Yeah, that sniper won’t know what’s hit him when I slowly charge at him with my Gillette razor.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Would it hurt, or would it feel like relief, when the bullet finally split her open?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Yes she did,’ Red said, straightening up to look Oliver in the eye. ‘She did all of it. And I hope she dies on her knees, scared and alone, like she did to my mom.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“This was the absolute worst way to die. Mid-squat-pissing behind a tree while Maddy’s axe-murderer charged at her from the front. Dignified till the”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“You're okay,' Red told her, because Maddy had said it to her before, and maybe it was just the thing you said to people who weren't okay.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Want to know a secret?” Arthur said, his voice dipping into whispers, eyes flashing from behind his glasses. “I think you’re smarter.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“My name is Arthur,” he said, pausing, eyes flicking to Red, latching on. “Arthur Gotti.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Simon scoffed. ‘Sure, just a misunderstanding. There’s a sniper out there with a high-powered rifle and a laser sight who’s decided to use us as target practice. But yeah, just a misunder standing.’ He’d changed his tune.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“What are you, the tequila guardian?’ He pointed at her. ‘Right, because I’m Mexican?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Was that fair? Maybe Red’s understanding of it was skewed, because it didn’t seem fair at all, her life in the hands of five other people. But when had life ever been fair to her, why should death be any different?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Oh, cool,’ Simon said, between bites. ‘Didn’t know the Mafia was still a thing, I love The Godfather. “Revenge is a dish best served cold,”’ he said in a dreadful Italian American accent.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Oliver Charles Lavoy. “Madeline Joy Lavoy. “Reyna Flores-Serrano. “Arthur Grant Moore. “Simon Jinsun Yoo. “Redford Kenny.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Why was there pain everywhere? She was alive and it hurt to be alive.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Real shame was killing your mom and having to live with it, knowing that she died and the last thing you ever said to her was that you hated her. If Red survived that, she could survive this.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Oh, come on,’ Simon interjected. ‘This is turning into Lord of the Fucking Flies. We’re going to end up killing each other, forget about the sniper.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Little Red Kenny, poor as dirt and a dead mom, but she had potential, hadn’t you heard?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“What a ridiculous word that was. Fine. She was undressing at knifepoint and there was a sniper outside and she was supposed to be dead. But she was fine, you know?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“If she’d lost her mind, then Oliver must have lost his hours ago. How could he ask his little sister to do that? To leave the RV in full view of the sniper? It was madness.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“If only it had been that easy, Oliver. Throw money at the problem.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“I will only ask you one more time!’ he screamed, and the knife glinted at her. ‘Take off your clothes!”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“That's what she said -Simon”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“That was my goodbye, I guess, my way of fixing it, taking her out of the world, so at least if you were gone then she was gone too.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Take those feelings away, blow them out of her head.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“For god’s sake, Simon, enough with The Office references,’ Maddy said. ‘He’s been doing that since middle school, before he even knew what it meant.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“You’re the leader, the most high-value person here. What is your brilliant plan to escape the active shooter out there in the pitch-black who can see us but we can’t see him?”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“The guilt a physical pain in your gut, twisting and twisting, like a hunger that never ended.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Not worrying wasn’t a choice, not one Red had anyway. In her darkest moments, those winter nights when she had to wear her coat to bed, over two pairs of pajamas and five pairs of socks, and still shivered anyway,”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive