I Am Number Four Quotes
"IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE NINE OF US. We left when we were young, almost too young to remember."
"I am told the ground shook, that the skies were full of light and explosions."
"It was a time of celebration, and the explosions were at first mistaken for fireworks. They were not."
"The nine of us had to scatter, and go our own ways. For how long, nobody knew."
"The first scar came when I was nine years old. It woke me from my sleep, burning itself into my flesh."
"I am Number Four. I know that I am next."
"It is light pink, almost like cake frosting, sitting ten feet above the ground on wooden stilts."
"Normal people have photos and videos and journals; we have the atlas."
"I’ll never see anyone I knew here ever again."
"I would imagine there are a few. And we might even get lucky and find cars and TV there, too."
"I like the idea of making some friends, of going to the same school for more than a few months, of maybe actually having a life."
"This is about the survival of our race, which was almost entirely obliterated, and about keeping you alive."
"We pass by farms with horses and cattle, then barren fields, and beyond those, it’s trees as far as the eye can see."
"It is dark out, but there is a pale glow to the west."
"The waters pass below us. They are calm and the moonlight is shimmering on the small waves, creating dapples of white in the crests."
"I never once saw the man get angry. When everyone else lost their temper, when stress encompassed them, your grandfather stayed calm."
"We were never meant to be fighters. We would have been ineffective. We would have died like the rest."
"I’m already in love. And I’ll continue to be until the day that I die."
"I sigh and look at my watch. It’s four o’clock."
"It was all so different from what I expected. Death isn’t like what they show you in the movies."
"You are my life, kiddo. You and my memories are my only ties to the past."
"I’m sure you will. But just in case I’m going to be right here waiting."
"I don’t know if they’ll keep silent. If they do I’ll have to leave, no way around it."
"If you were to tell any human now that there is a threat of an attack by aliens, well, they would laugh at you."
"That little glow right there, that is hope, John."
"Sometimes even I forget how beautiful it all is."
"You know, if the article had mentioned anything about us, that might have given me pause. But it didn’t."
"Your hands lit up like flashlights. You could throw people around like they were nothing. That’s not normal."
"I think alien abductions are very possible."
"The Mogadorian alien race, from the planet Mogadore of the 9th Galaxy, have been on Earth for over ten years now."
"We came to Earth ten years ago from a planet named Lorien."
"I’m resistant to fire and can turn my hands into lights. I have telekinesis."
"I’m acting like someone who is starting to realize who he is and what he can do."
"The whole world is shrouded in shades of orange, red, yellow that dance in my line of sight."
"The world can pass by without me, as long as we can stay here, together, in each other’s arms."
"I love you, John, and you saved my life, and that’s all that’s important."
"Where the hell do you think this came from?"
"Now isn’t the time for sentimentality, John."
"I’m sorry," I say, giving myself enough of a head start to get away.
What’s happening?" Sarah whispers. "I don’t know.
It’s the last thing to go," Henri says. "When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
We’ve done all we could. And what’s done is done. But I’m damn proud of you," he says. "You did amazing today. I always knew you would. There was never a doubt in my mind.
I don’t think it matters, Henri," I say. "But the school is ahead of us, and that is where Sam will be shortly.
"There is somebody I would like you to meet."
"You are Lorien's Legacy, John. You and the others. The only hope the planet has left."
"You did great, you did so great. I always knew you would."
"Be strong. This war...Can win...Find the others."
"I wouldn’t have missed a second of it, kiddo. Not for all of Lorien. Not for the whole damn world."
"I'll come back to you. I promise you, if it's the last thing I do I'll come back to you."
"We'll be together yet, I tell her. And until that day you'll be in my heart and my every thought."