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Evan is a handsome boy who appears to be 18 or 19. He rescues Cassie after she gets hit in the leg by a sniper bullet and takes her back to his family farmhouse. He and Cassie start to develop romantic feelings for each other, but things get complicated once Cassie learns that Evan himself was the sniper who shot her in the leg with a silenced rifle. It turns out Evan is also carrying another secret: he’s not really a teenaged boy but is in fact one of the Others, and he has been charged with eliminating what remains of humanity. Evan himself, however, has always argued for peacefully coexisting on Earth with humans and only did his job reluctantly. Although Cassie struggles to trust Evan, he proves his loyalty by betraying the aliens and risking his life to help Cassie rescue Sammy. His fate is uncertain at the end of the novel because he went in alone to blow up the alien camp.
Evan Walker/the Silencer Quotes in The 5th Wave
The The 5th Wave quotes below are all either spoken by Evan Walker/the Silencer or refer to Evan Walker/the Silencer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 31
Quotes
A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn’t cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost.
His heart, the war.
Her face, the battlefield.
With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned.
And ran.
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Chapter 36
Quotes
“You want to compare yourself to an insect, Cassie? If you’re an insect, then you’re a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone. That doesn’t have anything to do with the Others. It’s always been that way. We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”
Chapter 55
Quotes
“I had it all wrong,” he says. “Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn’t. To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.”
Chapter 66
Quotes
“You know we’re not coming back,” he says, and lights the match.
Chapter 69
Quotes
“I don’t want to be a shark,” I whisper.
He looks at me for a long, uncomfortable moment. He could have said, Shark? Who? What? Huh? Who said you were a shark? Instead, he begins to nod, like he totally gets it. “You aren’t.”
You, not we. I give his long look back to him.
Chapter 83
Quotes
I level the silencer at his chest as his hand emerges from the pocket.
The hand that holds a gun.
But my hand holds an M16 assault rifle.
How long is one half of one half second?
Long enough for a little boy who doesn’t know the first rule to leap between the gun and the rifle.
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Evan Walker/the Silencer Quotes in The 5th Wave
The The 5th Wave quotes below are all either spoken by Evan Walker/the Silencer or refer to Evan Walker/the Silencer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 31
Quotes
A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear from what total war demands. If he couldn’t cross that line, the battle was over, and he was lost.
His heart, the war.
Her face, the battlefield.
With a cry only he could hear, the hunter turned.
And ran.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 36
Quotes
“You want to compare yourself to an insect, Cassie? If you’re an insect, then you’re a mayfly. Here for a day and then gone. That doesn’t have anything to do with the Others. It’s always been that way. We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”
Chapter 55
Quotes
“I had it all wrong,” he says. “Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn’t. To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.”
Chapter 66
Quotes
“You know we’re not coming back,” he says, and lights the match.
Chapter 69
Quotes
“I don’t want to be a shark,” I whisper.
He looks at me for a long, uncomfortable moment. He could have said, Shark? Who? What? Huh? Who said you were a shark? Instead, he begins to nod, like he totally gets it. “You aren’t.”
You, not we. I give his long look back to him.
Chapter 83
Quotes
I level the silencer at his chest as his hand emerges from the pocket.
The hand that holds a gun.
But my hand holds an M16 assault rifle.
How long is one half of one half second?
Long enough for a little boy who doesn’t know the first rule to leap between the gun and the rifle.
