And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.
Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave.
“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.”
“This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One”
“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.”
“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.”
“Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.Throw things away and love will bring them back,again, and again, and again.But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.And in return, love loves you and never...”
“Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”
“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”
“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”