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<Books 4-6>
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “No, I haven’t had any weird dreams about the sea. I’ve had weird dreams about my sheets trying to strangle me. I’ve had weird dreams about falling from way up high and when I finally land I’m in Mister Roger’s Neighborhood talking to King Friday. I’ve had weird dreams about that woman of Baywatch...hmm, well, that does kind of involve the ocean, I guess.” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 14 (The rerelease changes "Mister Roger's Neighborhood" to "Sesame Street", "King Friday" to "Elmo", and "woman on Baywatch" to "woman who lifeguards at the beach".)
- “I was busy watching my taped reruns of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood. Last night it was the one where it was a beautiful day in the neighborhood.” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 18
- (Rerelease version: “I was busy watching reruns of Sesame Street. Last night it was the one where it was a sunny day, sweeping the clouds away.” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 18)
- “I can’t just ignore someone crying out for help.” ~ Cassie, Book #4 pg. 26
- “The fact that I once dreamed about staying home and watching TV in total safety, that means nothing, right?” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 27
- “How about my dream of living long enough to get a driver’s license?” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 28
- “Visser Three wrong? Maybe. But I’m not the fool who’s going to try and tell him.” ~ Chapman, Book #4 pg. 38
- “Well, as you know, we have six dolphins here. Joey, whom you’ve met, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, and Rachel.” ~ Eileen the dolphin trainer, Book #4 pg. 51
- “It’s not bad enough we have to fight Hork-Bajir and Taxxons and Visser Three, we also have to fight sharks? Sharks?” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 82
- “Have our lives gotten really weird, or is it just me?” ~ Tobias, Book #4 pg. 87
- “Well, that was fun. Let’s never, ever do it again.” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 102
- “We made it. I don’t know where we made it to, but we made it.” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 107
- “I did not recognize it. I have only heard it once, and that was in school, and I wasn’t paying attention.” ~ Ax, Book #4 pg. 131 (133)
- “If I have to lose, I’d rather lose fighting than let him catch us one by one.” ~ Jake, Book #4 pg. 137 (139)
- “It isn’t necessary to believe whales are as smart as humans to believe that they are great. They don’t have to know words to sing songs. They don’t have to be anything but what they are to be magnificent. And even though I don’t really know what a soul is, I know this—if humans have them, then so do whales.” ~ Cassie, Book #4 pg. 140 (142)
- “It’s not just about one species, human beings. It’s about all the animals. It’s about all of Earth.” ~ Cassie, Book #4 pg. 142 (144)
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “I believe in minding my own business.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 2
- “I swear that, if she could, Rachel would be wearing a suit of armor and swinging a sword. And it would be a fashionable suit of armor, and she would look great in it.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 12
- “The higher the danger, the higher the honor.” ~ Ax, Book #5 pg. 20
- “We’re mostly against the idea of getting killed.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 21
- “Jake? Do me a favor. Don’t ever say ‘so far, so good.’ The only time anyone ever says ‘so far, so good’ is right before everything blows up in his face.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 29
- “We can’t travel faster than light, but we can make a sticky bun that smells pretty good.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 35 (36)
- “Oh, I have a very bad feeling about this.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 36 (37)
- “Well, I’m guessing that in about two centuries or so, humans will discover zero space and make transponders. Whatever they are. But in the meantime, I’m going to have a sandwich.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 61
- “You grind my nerves sometimes, Marco, always joking the way you do. But keep it up, okay? We need a sense of humor.” ~ Rachel, Book #5 pg. 98
- “Remember the good old days? When we used to argue over who had the best jump shot? Now it’s who has the best bird eyes.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 105
- “As long as we’re alive, there’s hope.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 119
- “We have to have hope.” ~ Jake, Book #5 pg. 126
- “I have a saying for you. I got it from a fortune cookie. ‘Fall down seven times, get up eight.’ You know what that means? That means you don’t ever just lie there. You always get up. You always come back for more. You never surrender. Maybe you die, but you never surrender.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 137 (138)
- “It’s better to laugh than to cry, don’t you think?” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 149 (151)
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “Oh, man, the things I do with my spare time.” ~ Jake, Book #6 pg. 7
- “Okay. We’re bugs. Let’s get this over with, because I have to tell you—I have a major urge to step on myself.” ~ Marco, Book #6 pg. 33
- “It doesn’t look like I’m gonna fit through this doorway. So I guess I’ll have to make the door a little bigger.” ~ Rachel, Book #6 pg. 97
- “A human will fight even when he knows he can’t win. Maybe our species is just a little crazy. But human history is full of cases where a handful of guys would fight an entire army. They’d get stomped, but they’d fight anyway.” ~ Jake, Book #6 pg. 140 (138)
- “Don’t ever give up.” ~ Jake, Book #6 pg. 153 (152)
- “This is a very complicated planet, Marco. That’s what I hear, anyway. And it’s a very strange universe. Anything could happen.” ~ Jake, Book #6 pg. 154 (153)
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