The 5th Wave Manipulation Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #7

"Aren't they smart?" Ringer mutters, like she's read my mind. "Put on a human face so no human face can be trusted. The only answer: Kill everyone or risk being killed by anyone." (58.24)

The problem with this logic is some human-looking aliens get killed along with the humans, right? Guess the aliens don't mind a few casualties here and there.

Quote #8

It's a lie. Wonderland. Camp Haven. The war itself. How easy it was. How incredibly easy, even after all that we'd been through. Or maybe it was easy because of all we'd been through. (61.2-61.3)

Zombie is appalled that he was so easily deceived by his superiors, who are secretly aliens. They fooled him, but they also fooled almost everyone else (Ringer and Tank being two notable exceptions).

Quote #9

If Evan is one of them, whose team do you play for? Would Evan kill one of his own kind to keep up the façade with me—or was he forced to kill them because they thought he was human? Thinking about it makes me sick with despair: there's no bottom to this crap. (70.5)

Evan's deception makes Cassie question her own allegiance. We can answer her last question, though. Evan killed the child soldiers so that they didn't kill Cassie.