“The 5th Wave” quotes
(2016)Plot – Cassie is a teenager and must save her little brother Sammy from an alien attack, preparing herself to their inevitable and deadly fifth wave. Fortunately, Cassie meets a mysterious young man who might be their only hope.
All actors – Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Zackary Arthur, David Maldonado, Paul Ryden, E. Roger Mitchell, Charmin Lee
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“The first wave knocked out all the power, then the second wave hit. An earthquake strong enough to shake the entire planet. With the third wave disease spread across the world. By the fourth wave, they were among us.”
“Let the weight of our loss fuel you. Let the weight of our dead embolden you. Let the weight of our hope drive you to victory. Can you do that?”
“- Ringer: [to Ben] I like to play chess. Do you play?
- Flintstone: [interrupting] No, actually. But if you wanna play some strip poker later on...”“They took everything from me. This is our world, this is our home. Our only choice is to take it back.”
“I miss the Cassie I was. A totally normal high school girl. I wonder what that Cassie would think of me now. The Cassie who kills.”
“When you're in high school, just about everything feels like the end of the world. An early curfew... A final exam... Soccer practice... Turns out what we thought was the end of the world, wasn't.”
“- Ben Parish: What did we do to deserve...
- Colonel Vosch: Nothing. Other than occupy a space we need. We're not that different, Ben. Your kind would do exactly the same thing.
- Ben Parish: No. Our kind wouldn't have wiped out an entire species.
- Colonel Vosch: Of course you would. You've been doing it for centuries.”“Here's how you kill off a species. First, you take out the easy ones: the weak, the exposed. Kill them as efficiently as possible. That was the first three Waves. But even if you bug bomb a house, there's always a few cockroaches left. Now, we are like those cockroaches. And the Others are picking us off... One by one. And because the Others...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Our intelligence tells us The Others are readying themselves for a final attack. The 5th Wave. What form it will take, we do not know. If they are successful, there will be no more Waves. No more conflicts. Humanity as we know it will be wiped from the face of the Earth.”
“We're not fighting the 5th Wave. We are the 5th Wave.”
“- Sergeant Reznik: You were infected yet recovered while your family didn't.
- Ben Parish: That's why they call me 'zombie'.”
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