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<Books 16-18>
- “Oooh. Don’t hurt me with the chakram of your wit, Xena.” ~ Marco, Book #16 pg. 41
- “Ax and Marco are the computer brains. They go in. Ax as human, and Marco as himself.”
“So Marco won’t be human?” Rachel asked quickly, then laughed at her own joke.
“That was a good one,” Marco complimented her. “Fast, too.”
“Thank you.”
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- “Be sure and leave your brain to science when you die, Marco. After all, they’re the ones with the microscopes it’d take to find it.” ~ Rachel, Book #16 pg. 70
- “You never really get past the fear. Fear eats a little hole in you, like rust in the fender of a car. You fill the hole up with putty and sand it smooth and paint it over so no one else can see it. But it’s never really as good as new.” ~ Jake, Book #16 pg. 75
- “What is the matter with people that they don’t know all that really counts is that people who love each other be able to be together, live in peace, learn, work, tell boring stories and dumb jokes? What do they think they’re going to get that is better than that?” ~ Jake, Book #16 pg. 79
- “Sometimes there is no right answer to the problems we face, but what can you do but keep trying to figure the answer out, anyway? What else can you do?” ~ Jake, Book #16 pg. 145
- <Who is this Schwarzenegger?> Ax demanded. <I have heard Marco use his name before.>
“Ah-nuld?” Marco demanded. “Who iss Ah-nuld? Ah-nuld iss der man, zat’s who Ah-nuld iss.”
<What man?>
“The man,” Marco explained, explaining nothing.
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- “Marco, Marco, Marco. You do like to cling to your pathetic little dreams, don’t you?” ~ Rachel, Book #17 pg. 10
- “How big a moron do you have to be not to figure out that at least if you stay alive you have some hope, as opposed to being dead and having zero?” ~ Rachel, Book #17 pg. 17
- “This society is way too celebrity-obsessed. It is so superficial.” ~ Rachel, Book #17 pg. 20
- “So that's the nuthouse. I always suspected I’d end up here.” ~ Marco, Book #17 pg. 29
- “School, nuthouse, what’s the difference when you get right down to it? Dumb rules and bad food in both places.” ~ Marco, Book #17 pg. 30
- “Anytime Rachel says ‘let’s do it’ in that insane, suicidal, rock-and-roll way of hers, disaster can’t be far away.” ~ Marco, Book #17 pg. 40
- “It’s OAT-freaking-MEAL!” ~ Marco, Book #17 pg. 63
- “Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know? Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.” ~ Jake, Book #17 pg. 104
- “Sometimes it’s hard to get out of a role once you’ve started playing the part.” ~ Rachel, Book #17 pg. 108
- “What can you do when you’re buried alive? You can either sit there screaming in blind, idiot panic. Or you can dig your way out.” ~ Rachel, Book #17 pg. 160
- “I find the ‘z’ sound especially enjoyable. It tickles the mouthparts. Many sounds are amusing.” ~ Ax, Book #18 pg. 5
- “Humor is more common among humans than among Andalites. I think they have to resort to humor. It helps them deal with the embarrassment of being so wobbly on their two ridiculous legs.” ~ Ax, Book #18 pg. 8
- “Humans are always lost in time. They are constantly certain that ‘it’ is later or earlier than they thought. I have never known a human to say, ‘Oh, look, it’s exactly what time I thought it was.’” ~ Ax, Book #18 pg. 10
- “I have a question. If you already have a Hewlett Aldershot and a Hewlett Aldershot, Jr., what kind of parent is going to go and inflict that name on a third kid? He must have gotten beat up after school every single day of his life.” ~ Marco, Book #18 pg. 14
- “You know, they really are your hours now, too. This is Earth. You’re stuck here. Go ahead and set your watch to local time.” ~ Marco, Book #18 pg. 15
- “Did you know that humans invented books before computers? Because of this they believe computers to be superior, despite the very obvious fact that it takes one of their computers as much as thirty seconds to ‘load’ a page, while a book page can be accessed with zero effective delay.” ~ Ax, Book #18 pg. 37
- “Humans may be technologically primitive, but they have created buttered popcorn, the Snickers bar, chili, and cigarette butts. (Although humans themselves become very upset by the idea of eating cigarette butts.) And let us not forget: Humans, for all their faults, have created the cinnamon bun.” ~ Ax, Book #18 pg.37
- “We can’t all morph the same mosquito,” Cassie said. “Only females suck blood. Males are useless.”
“Amen,” Rachel said, then laughed.
“So what’s that mosquito in your hand?” Marco demanded.
“Like I know?” Cassie said. “I don’t have a magnifying glass that good. And even if I did, how exactly do you tell a male from a female?”
“That’s easy,” Marco said. “The males think loud belching is funny and the females don’t.”
“Is there any chance we could just get on with this?” Prince Jake asked.
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- “Free people who get together to defend freedom are never weak.” ~ Marco, Book #18 pg. 125
- “You know, Ax, there’s just the two of us now. We could probably drop the whole ‘prince’ thing. You could just call me ‘The Jake formerly known as Prince.’” ~ Jake, Book #18 pg. 147
- “Exactly, Rachel. Eggs-ACT-lee. Zactly. We arrived back at the precise moment when we were snatched away. We were all yanked away at the same moment, so naturally we all arrived back at the same moment. Yanked. Yanked is a strange word. Yank. Yank-kut.”
“Yeah,” Marco said. “That’s what’s strange: the word ‘yanked.’ Us turning into mosquitoes to suck some guys blood so we could morph into him and instead ending up in the middle of some war to control psychic yellow frogs, and oh, by the way, blowing up a small continent full of Yeerks, saving an entire species, then getting back here to find out Coma-man woke up from a mosquito bite delivered by a morphed alien-slash-deer-slash-scorpion-slash-four-eyed centaur, that’s all totally normal. That’s just an average day. Dear Diary: another boring average day, till someone said ‘yanked.’”
I recognized his tone. Sarcasm. It is a form of humor. So I laughed using mouth-sounds.
“Hah. Hah-hah. Hah. Hah.” I considered, then added, “Hah.”
Prince Jake, Cassie, Marco, Rachel, and Tobias, in his own human morph, all stared at me.
“What was that?” Rachel demanded.
“I laughed.”
“Don’t...don’t do that, Ax,” Prince Jake said. “It’s disturbing somehow.”
“Yes, Prince Jake.”
“Don’t call me prince.”
“I will call you ‘The Jake formerly known as Prince.’”
Marco made a horrified face. “Oh, no. Now he’s making jokes. Bad, bad jokes.”
“Actually that was my joke,” Prince Jake said stiffly. “Oh, fine. I get it. You can’t laugh at my jokes. Okay. Great. I don’t even care.”
I was an Andalite, all alone, far, far, from home. Far from my own people. Except that sometimes your own people are not just the ones who look like you. Sometimes the people who are your own can be very different from you.
“Can we eat cinnamon buns now?” I asked hopefully. “Bun-zuh?”
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