Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

"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."

"And if humanity is the 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."

"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."