51 quotes found
“Time for the world to end.”
“Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.”
“It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!”
“This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One”
“We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first.”
“If the enemy looks just like you, how do you fight him?”
“We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. Were pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.”
“Were here, and then were gone, and its not about the time were here, but what we do with the time.”
“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 t...”
“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.”
“If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.”
“To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.”
“And it occurs to me that theres no real difference between us, the living and the dead; its just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead”
“Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.”
“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.”
“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 wasnt sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came ...”
“His body is pressed against my back, his arm is wrapped protectively around my waist, his breath a delicious tickle against my neck. The room is very cold; it would be nice to climb under the cover...”
“Do you believe in God, Evan?Sure I do.I dont. I mean, I dont know. I did before the Others came. Or thought I did, when I thought about it at all. And then they came and I have to stop for a second...”
“In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun.”
“This is what the Others have done to us. You cant band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.”
“Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him."Um. Define okay." (Ben)"Okay means you're not bleeding to death.""I'm okay.”
“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, not staying, but facing. Bec...”
“The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.Why didn't he finish her?Why couldn't he finish her?”
“And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.”
