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

Rick Yancey

Mots clés cassie

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I feel his kiss more intensely now, in the darkness of the room where his sister died. In the quiet of the house where his family died. In the stillness of the world where the life we knew before the Arrival died. He tastes my tears before I can feel them. Where there would be tears, his kiss. "I didn't save you, " he whispered, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me." He repeats it over and over until we fall asleep pressed against each other, his voice in my ear, my tears in his mouth, "You saved me.

Rick Yancey

Mots clés cassie evan

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She whips the hose back and forth, laughing as he chases it, the fleeting, uncatchable colors, shimmering splinters of the golden light. "Catch the rainbow, Sammy! Catch the rainbow!

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The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

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It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

Rick Yancey

Mots clés aliens apocalypse rick-yancey the-5th-wave alien-apocalypse

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Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

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Love has a way of making us stupid, Will Henry. It blinds us to certain blatant realities, in this case the spectacularly high mortality rate among monstrumologists. Rarely do we live past forty - my father and von Helrung being the exceptions.

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Don't let them get me, Cassie. Don't let me die.'
'You're not going to die, Sams.'
'Promise?'
I Promised.

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The cruelest aspect of love...is its inviolable integrity.

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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.

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