Ben Parish Quotes in The 5th Wave (2016)

Ben Parish: We're not fighting the 5th Wave. We *are* the 5th Wave.

Sam Sullivan: What's your name... before?

Ben Parish: Ben. What was yours?

Sam Sullivan: Sam. But my sister called me Sams. When I couldn't sleep... she would sing to me.

[begins singing]

Sam Sullivan: Bones, sinking like stones, all that we fought for.

Sam Sullivan, Ben Parish: [joining in] Homes, places we've grown, all of us are done for.

Dumbo: Could you guys please shut up?

Sam Sullivan, Ben Parish: We live in a beautiful world, Yeah we do, yeah we do. We live in a beautiful world.

Ben Parish: What did we do to deserve...

Colonel Vosch: Nothing. Other than occupy a space we need. We're not that different, Ben. Your kind would do exactly the same thing.

Ben Parish: No. Our kind wouldn't have wiped out an entire species.

Colonel Vosch: Of course you would. You've been doing it for centuries.

Ben Parish: You were named after a star, right? Cassiopeia.

Cassie Sullivan: Cassiopeia. Yeah. A cluster of stars.

Ben Parish: I was named after Ben & Jerry's. The truth. Yeah. Nothing made my dad happier than ice cream.

Sergeant Reznik: You were infected yet recovered while your family didn't

Ben Parish: That's why they call me zombie