Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

— Rick Yancey

“Resilience isn’t a personality trait. It’s a decision you make when the alternative is disappearing.”

— Hagir Elsheikh

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

— Rick Yancey

'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that…

— Rick Yancey

I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took…

— Rick Yancey

Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all…

— Rick Yancey

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

— Rick Yancey

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, 'The 5th…

— Rick Yancey

The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.

— Rick Yancey

I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.

— Rick Yancey

To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

— Rick Yancey

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to…

— David Henry Hwang

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

— Publilius Syrus

With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T.…

— Maika Monroe

My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.

— Enrique Iglesias