Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

"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."

"Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no."

"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."

"We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We’re pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes."

"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. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield"

"This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One"

"And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield."

"Are you okay" I (Cassie) call up to him."Um. Define okay." (Ben)"Okay means you're not bleeding to death."I'm okay."

"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."

"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 to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield."

"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."