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

Who does this teenage version of the Brawny paper-towel guy think he's kidding?

If the enemy looks just like you, how do you fight him?

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

Snap to, Will Henry!

Silencer, was as good as any. It described his purpose: to snuff out the human noise.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

It was about killing us. All of us.

Oh, Sam, you have the face of a child but the eyes of an old man.

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

learning to let go of my rage and embrace the howling emptiness and

You're all they have,

And if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

He really was training me to be a soldier - by trying to kill me.

Time for the world to end.

Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

We cried openly over the ones we lost. We wept secretly for our smartphones, our cars, our microwave ovens, and the Internet.

He shakes his head. I touch his knee, then pull my hand back quickly. After the first touch, touching becomes too easy.

Limitless. Without borders, without boundaries.

She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.

You can feel it deep in your bones because it's older than your senses: the end of winter, the Earth sliding toward Spring.

Killing humans - isn't that the aliens' job?

We never see ourselves the way we truly are, do we, Will? The mirror lies to us.

A Silencer wouldn't nurse me back to health - much less give me nicknames and play snuggles in the dark.

Aliens are stupid.

Oh, Bob. Gonna miss you. Gonna miss you so bad.

Life is a circle bound by fear. The fear of the predator. The fear of the prey. Without fear, life would not exist.

I'm a disease. That's what I am to you.

So there you go. You can love the good in us and hate the bad, but the bad is in us, too. Without it, we wouldn't be us.

Guns might not kill people, but they sure made it easier.

equal-opportunity sadist.

Whoever's not with us is against us. That kind of thinking nearly brought an end to history, more than once. This

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

Give someone the power of the gods and he will become as indifferent as the gods.

Our betrayals, our jealousies, our fears, they rise no higher than the tops of our heads.

Ten thousand years to plan the eradication of humans from Earth and this is the best they can come up with? That's

When you take the humanity out of humans, you are left with humans with no humanity. In other words, you get what you paid for ...

Then you'll love chess. Chess is checkers on steroids.

The world was ripping apart. And pieces of the wreckage were raining all around me.

You be America, alien invaders, and we'll be Vietnam.
And the Others go, Yeah, okay, right.

I'm not bitching."
"Yes, you are. You're bitching like a junior miss beauty queen.

We're all dead ... Some of us are just a little further along than others.

The lion crouches in the tall grass. The gazelle sniffs the air. The awful stillness before the strike.

She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all

Empty the vessel of hope and faith and trust and you can fill it with anything you like. They

Well, thought I, he's either sleeping or he's dead. If the former, I dare not wake him. If the latter, I cannot!

Remember me...When all else has been forgotten.

When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.

It's over. It's never over. It isn't a line from that night to this day; it's a circle.

When you love someone. Something happens to them, and it's a punch in the heart. Not like a punch in the heart; a real punch in the heart.

It is exceedingly odd to see a piece of yourself apart from yourself.

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

If you are human, there is no hope.

the silence of the void, as if the world stopped breathing and

So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it. My

He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he's holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he's won fair and square.

Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.

Okay. What if we were the last two people on Earth?" "Then you'd still end up being the last, because I'd kill myself.

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

England is home to one of the most unattractive people on earth!" He glared at Walker. "You are the perfect example.

The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us.

Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there.

You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope.

The future of humanity belongs to the hardcore.

There's nothing left to say. There's a million things left to say.

Are you crying, Ringer?"
"My eyes are watering."
"No."
"Don't tell me no, Razor. I don't cry."
"Bullshit.

And, in the end, we lie awake And we dream of making our escape.

Because love is the most dangerous weapon in the world. It's more unstable than uranium.

There was not breaking through the lie because accepting the truth would break them.

We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?

He showed me how enormous the emptiness was by filling it.

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.

we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood.

reeking of sewage and rotting corpses, burned-out shells of houses, feral dogs

That night lasted a thousand years.

Run equals die. Stay equals die. So before we go all O.K. Corral on this, let's consider the third option: We blow it up.

I built a fortress safe and strong to last a thousand years. A mighty stronghold that crumbles with a kiss

We are mere part of a grand whoe, in no way superior, not at all the angels in mortal attire we pretend to be.

Ringer, I don't want to burst your bubble, but - "
"You don't want to burst my bubble butt?"
"That sounded suspiciously like a joke.

My anger is greater than the sum of all things lost.

to break the bonds of distrust is natural human sympathy. Pity has killed more people than hate.

You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

In fact, I can't even tell if I'm breathing. That's number one on the "How do I know if I'm alive?" checklist.

Why the devil are you going again?
To save the doctor.
Save him from what?
Whatever he needs saving from. I'm his apprentice.

That was a good thing a bad thing or a thing that was neither good nor bad, but whatever it was, good, bad or neither , depended on your point of

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

the look we give back to death when death looks at us.

The world was FUBAR now.

The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.

The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.
Why didn't he finish her?
Why couldn't he finish her?

It's about being hardcore. Because this is the last war, and only the hardcore will survive it.

One day private ringer you're going to smile at something I say and the world will break in half.

In case you don't know, we live on a restless planet. The

The truth is you don't know shit. I don't know shit. Nobody knows shit.

How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

Pining for things we lost is the same as hoping for things that can never be. Both roads dead-end in despair.

By killing us, they showed us the idiocy of stuff. The guy who owned this BMW? He's in the same place as the woman who owned that Kia.

He had given in to hope, and that will kill you. It kills you before you die. Long before you die.