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<Books 1-3>
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “Rachel may look like Little Miss Teen Model or whatever, but she thinks she’s Storm from the X-Men.” ~ Jake, Book #1 pg. 4
- “We’re off the map of weirdness by this point. But unless we’re all just dreaming, I think we’d better deal with this.” ~ Rachel, Book #1 pg. 22
- “If you think you’re brave, well, wait till you’re cowering a few feet away from a monster who can turn you into coleslaw in about three seconds flat.” ~ Jake, Book #1 pg. 33
- “I guess you never really know someone till you see them scared. And even scared to death, with tears running down her face, Rachel had strength to spare.” ~ Jake, Book #1 pg. 39
- “Somewhere up there was...hope.” ~ Jake, Book #1 pg. 184 (185)
- “Until then, we fight.” ~ Jake, Book #1 pg. 184 (185)
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “Looks are not the important thing. It’s what’s in your head that counts.” ~ Rachel, Book #2 pg. 17
- “You don’t quit the sport just because you lose one game.” ~ Jake, Book #2 pg. 24
- “If you’re going to listen to your CD player in math class with an earphone hidden under your hair, you have to remember not to start singing along.” ~ Rachel, Book #2 pg. 46 (The rerelease changes "your CD player" to "music".)
- “Don’t mess with me. You may be bigger than me, you may scare me, you may make me run away, but if I have to I am ready to fight.” ~ Rachel, Book #2 pg. 82
- “I decided that I don’t care what it takes, or how many risks I have to run. I don’t care what happens to me. I hate these Yeerks. I hate them. I hate them. And I will find a way to stop them.” ~ Rachel, Book #2 pg. 110
- “Love is pretty important. It’s like wearing a suit of armor. It makes you strong.” ~ Rachel, Book #2 pg. 112
- “Not Fantastic Four. I’m thinking more an X-Men kind of thing. It’s not about being identical, it’s just about having some style. Right now, if anyone saw us, they wouldn’t think ‘Oh, cool, superheroes,’ they’d think ‘Man, those people do not know how to dress.’” ~ Marco, Book #2 pg. 114
- “Yes, but I really, really want it to be a comic book. See, in a comic book the heroes don’t get killed. I mean, okay, they killed Spiderman that time, but it was only temporary.” ~ Marco, Book #2 pg. 114
- (Rerelease Version: “Yes, but I really, really want it to be a comic book. See, in a comic book the heroes don’t get killed. I mean, okay, they get killed, but usually not the big ones, or it's only temporary.” ~ Marco, Book #2 pg. 114)
- “There isn’t much point in doing any of this if we forget why we’re doing it.” ~ Cassie, Book #2 pg. 115 (116)
- “They fight fiercely for their children, these humans.” ~ Iniss 226, Book #2 pg. 140
- “We’re not beaten yet.” ~ Jake, Book #2 pg. 146 (145)
- “Fear is like a worm inside you. It eats you. It chews your guts. It bores holes in your heart. It makes you feel hollow. Empty. Alone.” ~ Rachel, Book #2 pg. 149 (148)
- “The point is, that I agreed to be made into a host. I agreed to...to...I agreed to surrender my freedom. To become a Controller. To accept this filthy thing in my head. To accept your control. I agreed...but only if you would spare my daughter.” ~ Chapman, Book #2 pg. 159 (158)
- “If you harm my daughter, I will fight you. I will fight you forever.” ~ Chapman, Book #2 pg. 161 (160)
- “There will be a next time. There will be a next time until the Andalites return.” ~ Tobias, Book #2 pg. 175 (174)
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “Something about the lonely, defeated, yet courageous Andalite prince touched me so deeply that I could never regret fighting to settle the score.” ~ Tobias, Book #3 pg. 11
- “Are you INSANE?!!” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 14
- “We aren’t supposed to be rescuing animals. We’re supposed to be rescuing the entire human race from being enslaved by the Yeerks.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 15
- “Since all of you guys think you have to save the world, and since you’re all my friends, more or less, I figure someone has to keep you from being total idiots.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 15
- “Boy, if Marco’s the sensible one, we’re all in serious trouble.” ~ Rachel, Book #3 pg. 16
- “Don’t say the word ‘cage’ around Tobias. He’ll do some guerrilla-commando-Ninja-SWAT-team-hawk-from-hell attack on the Center. And he’ll talk Rachel into stomping your house flat.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 17 (In the rereleased version, "ninja" is not capitalized.)
- “Why is it our job to get killed?” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 28
- “As far as I’m concerned, I can’t just do nothing while people are enslaved by the Yeerks.” ~ Cassie, Book #3 pg. 28
- “So why should I get killed for strangers? We can’t stay lucky forever. Don’t you people understand that? Sooner or later, we’ll slip up. Sooner or later we’ll be standing around here crying because Jake or Rachel or Cassie or Tobias is gone.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 28
- “As of right now, as of today, only one of us has been hurt. Me. But I’m not going to give up.” ~ Tobias, Book #3 pg. 29
- “Are we seeing it? No. We’ve totally missed the fact that a spaceship the size of Delaware is hovering in midair.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 52
- “What counts is what is in your head and in your heart. A person isn’t his body. A person isn’t what’s on the outside.” ~ Rachel, Book #3 pg. 71
- “Jake, I just told you I didn’t want to know.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 79
- “I have a lot of time on my hands. No hands, exactly, but lots of time.” ~ Tobias, Book #3 pg. 81
- “As long as you have me and the others, you aren’t lost, Tobias.” ~ Rachel, Book #3 pg. 90
- “Killing because it’s the only way you can eat, because that’s the way nature designed you, that’s one thing. Killing because you want power or control is evil.” ~ Rachel, Book #3 pg. 101
- “There are human beings all over, trapped in bodies controlled by Yeerks. Trapped. Unable to escape. Rachel, I know how they feel. Maybe I can’t escape. Maybe I am trapped forever. But if we can free some of those others. Maybe...I don’t know. Maybe that’s what I need to do to stay human.” ~ Tobias, Book #3 pg. 102
- “Fishing is a matter of skill and luck. A smart fisherman learns not to become frustrated.” ~ Cassie, Book #3 pg. 108
- “People are funny - they never think something bad will happen to them.” ~ Tobias, Book #3 pg. 112
- “Excuse me. But does anyone else ever stop to realize that some of the things we talk about doing are totally INSANE?” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 133
- “I’m a predator who kills for food. And I’m also a human being who...who grieves, over death.” ~ Tobias, Book #3 pg. 153
- “Be happy for me, and for all who fly free.” ~ Tobias, Book #3 pg. 154
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