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- “Sometimes children can accomplish amazing things.” ~ Elfangor, AC pg. ix
- “Skrit Na are constantly going to peaceful planets and kidnapping the local species. Sometimes they perform medical experiments on them. Sometimes they just fly around with them and then let them go. But often they carry local creatures away to add them to zoos on the Skrit Na home world. Like I said: a weird species. No one understands the Skrit Na. Personally, I don’t think they understand themselves.” ~ Elfangor, AC pg. 24
- “All it would take is one little push and they’d fall right over. Earth must be hysterical! Humans falling forward and back, falling all over the place. No wonder they are so primitive. They probably spend all their time just trying to stand up.” ~ Arbron, AC pg. 32
- “Even those who return from war may never really come home.” ~ Alloran, AC pg. 54
- “War is not about striking brave poses and playing the hero. War is about killing.” ~ Alloran, AC pg. 79
- “Life! Life never feels so sweet as when you’ve come right up against death.” ~ Elfangor, AC pg. 105
- “Aren’t lost causes sometimes the best causes, Elfangor?” ~ Arbron, AC pg. 154
- “Any life is better than none. And no matter how awful things seem, there is always meaning and purpose to be found.” ~ Arbron, AC pg. 154
- “Without life there is no despair, but without life there can also never be hope.” ~ Elfangor, AC pg. 219
- “You humans don’t give up easily, do you?” ~ Elfangor, AC pg. 220
- “I guess humans just love anything with straight edges and a rectangular shape.” ~ Elfangor, AC pg. 266
- “I guess sometimes even good people do bad things. I mean, that’s what war is all about, isn’t it?” ~ Loren, AC pg. 297
- “What’s the point of winning, if by winning you lose what you were fighting for.” ~ Loren, AC pg. 297
- “War does terrible things to people. Some it raises to greatness. Others it destroys.” ~ Captain Feyorn, AC pg. 321
- “I leave as my last legacy a single word for all the free peoples of the galaxy. <Hope...>” ~ Elfangor, AC pg. 326
- “We may be simple people. But we don’t use biology to invent monsters. And we don’t enslave other species. And we don’t unleash a plague of parasites on the galaxy, endangering every other free species, and then go swaggering around like the lords of the universe. No, we’re too simple for all that. We’re too stupid to lie and manipulate. We’re too stupid to be ruthless. We’re too stupid to know how to build powerful weapons designed to annihilate our enemies. Until you came, Andalite, we were too stupid to know how to kill.” ~ Dak Hamee, HBC pg. 172
- “I have learned. It is still confusing, but I know this: Even within the limited geographic and political entity called ‘America’ there are further subdivisions. Cities. Some are obviously irrelevant. Only four are mentioned frequently in the data: New York, Washington DeeCee, Ellay, and Hollywood. Of these I conclude from the prevalence of mentions in the data that Hollywood is the most important.” ~ Edriss 562, Visser pg. 66
- “They attack against insane odds. They defend what can’t be defended. Outnumbered, outgunned, surrounded, hopeless, they will still fight, fight, fight, till they are each and every one dead.” ~ Edriss 562, Visser pg. 103
- “Not on the past but on the future fix your range finder.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 24
- “There are sims and then there is reality. And let me say that no sim, no matter how good, matches reality. The problem with a sim is that you know it’s a sim. Reality on the other hand, well, it’s real.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 46
- “Sometimes the things that seem to be problems are actually blessings in disguise.” ~ Lackofa, EC pg. 52
- “You needed love to win at the game of music.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 127
- “How could anyone despair while music was being played?” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 127
- “I’m a loser. They called me a brilliant loser, all winners, all winners but me: loser. But only a loser can sing the azures. Only a loser truly sees.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 128
- “A Ketran—any sentient species—is only his free will. Freedom and sentience are inseparable. The captive, programmed mind is no mind at all.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 146
- “Life was everywhere. A thousand thousand planets teeming with life.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 156
- “I had watched entire worlds die. I had lost my own race. How could I care so much about this one small, unsteady creature? How could her death cut me so deeply?” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 177
- “Life was winning the race against death. Good was outrunning evil.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 181
- “Who is to say who is piece and who is player? How often had I wondered whether I myself was just a game piece in a still larger game whose players laughed at my pretensions?” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 199
- “You are...you were...a happy accident. An unwitting contribution from the human race to its own survival.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 199
- “Okay, then answer this, Ellimist: Did I...did I make a difference? My life, and my...my death...was I worth it? Did my life really matter?”
“Yes. You were brave. You were strong. You were good. You mattered.”
“Yeah. Okay, then. Okay, then.”
A small strand of space-time went dark and coiled into nothingness.
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