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<Books 22-24>
- “Marco,” I said, once I had demorphed. “You know you’re a toad?”
“Kiss me and I’ll become a prince,” he said without hesitation. “I’ll be the Prince Formerly Known As Toad. You know you want me. You can’t help it. After all, you’re a female and I’m...well, I’m me.”
“Yeah, that’s the real Marco,” I said dryly.
Cassie laughed. “Believe me, we all did the same kind of thing. I asked him to tell me what it was like when we morphed trout. Just to test his memory.”
“And I answered that it wasn’t bad except the cracker-crumb coating chafed a little and I was allergic to tarter sauce. Now can you all stop playing that game? I’m afraid I’ll miss a punch line and Rachel will morph to grizzly and eat me before I have a chance to say anything.”
[Page 52]
- “Charge? I bet he’s always wanted to say that.” ~ Marco, Book #22 pg. 72
- “Just tell me this. When do we get a vacation? I mean, Ben-Hur rowing that Roman galley while the guy whipped him and the other guy banged on that big drum got more downtime than we do.” ~ Marco, Book #23 pg. 46
- <Hey, Ax-man, what’s up?>
<Up is the opposite of down. Although, of course, those terms are meaningless outside the context of a distinct, localized gravity field.>
<Ooookay.>
<Was that funny? I was attempting a joke.>
[Page 99]
- “A fool is strong so that others will see. A wise person is strong for himself.” ~ Toby, Book #23 pg. 116
- “Marco is Urkel.” ~ Rachel, Book #23 pg. 117
- “Every human—Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, all humans—kind of lives on that edge between savage and saint. And the thing is that sometimes when you get pushed you do have to push back. And other times, you have to turn the other cheek.” ~ Tobias, Book #23 pg. 119
- “Hah. Hah. And also, hah.” ~ Marco, Book #23 pg. 126
- “Rachel is the only person alive who could be run over by a bus, buried in a mud slide, and thrown two miles by a tornado, and somehow emerge from it with perfect clothes, perfect hair, and perfect makeup.” ~ Cassie, Book #24 pg. 7
- <Ah-hah! You see our might and tremble!>
“I see your might. Where’s your tremble?” Marco said.
The Helmacrons stared with their wobbly, marble eyes.
“Oh, no. We’re prisoners of creatures with no sense of humor,” Marco said.
[Page 70]
- “That does it, the votes are in, the Oscar for Absolute Insanity goes to us. Everyone go home. We rule the lunatic world.” ~ Marco, Book #24 pg. 127
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