Rick Yancey - The 5th Wave

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When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

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You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

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He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

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Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

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God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.

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Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

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Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

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It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

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Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.

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And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.

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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 wasn't sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.

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Tampons. I'm constantly worrying about my stash and if I'll be able to find more.

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He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he's holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he's won fair and square.

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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.

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When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone. And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me. The Cassie who kills.

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We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

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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?

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I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.

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How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

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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.

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Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.

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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.

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What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

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I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

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Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

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It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

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If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

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