...there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi. Monstrosities who, with a smile and a comforting pat on the head, are willing to sacrifice a child upon the altar of their own overweening ambition and pride.
They were afraid the longer we pretended to be human, the more human we would become.___nd who would want that?___ didn__ think I would,_ he admits. __ntil I became one.___hen you__oke up_ in Evan?__e shakes his head and says simply, as if it__ the most obvious thing in the world, __hen I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn__ fully human until I saw myself in your eyes.__nd then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it__ my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.Somebody might say that I__ not the only one lying in the enemy__ arms.I am humanity, but who is Evan Walker? Human and Other. Both and neither. By loving me, he belongs to no one.He doesn__ see it that way.
The 5th Wave
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They were afraid the longer we pretended to be human, the more human we would become.___nd who would want that?___ didn__ think I would,_ he admits. __ntil I became one.___hen you__oke up_ in Evan?__e shakes his head and says simply, as if it__ the most obvious thing in the world, __hen I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn__ fully human until I saw myself in your eyes.__nd then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it__ my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.Somebody might say that I__ not the only one lying in the enemy__ arms.I am humanity, but who is Evan Walker? Human and Other. Both and neither. By loving me, he belongs to no one.He doesn__ see it that way.
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