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Ben Parish Quotes

Six of the best book quotes from Ben Parish
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“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.”
Rick Yancey
author
The 5th Wave
book
Ben Parish
character
war
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easy
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trials
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hardships
concepts
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“It occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead.”
Rick Yancey
author
The 5th Wave
book
Ben Parish
character
fate
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facing death
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outcomes
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dying
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living
concepts
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“When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face… if you can’t get up and you can’t give up, here’s what you do: Crawl.”
Rick Yancey
author
The 5th Wave
book
Ben Parish
character
crawling
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keep going
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facing fear
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determination
concepts
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“It isn’t about destroying our capability to fight so much as crushing our will to fight.”
Rick Yancey
author
The 5th Wave
book
Ben Parish
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Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch
characters
giving up
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destroying
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fight
concepts
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“There’s a thousand ways this could go wrong and only one way for it to go right.”
Rick Yancey
author
The 5th Wave
book
Sammy Sullivan
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Ben Parish
characters
outcomes
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luck
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hopeful
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what can happen
concepts
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“Don’t think a play ahead, or two or three. Think about this play, this step. Get it right one step at a time, and you’ll score.”
Rick Yancey
author
The 5th Wave
book
Ben Parish
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Sammy Sullivan
characters
plans
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little by little
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preparations
concepts

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