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- “Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!” ~ Jake, MM#1 pg. 139
- “Rachel, Rachel, Rachel! Everything is always Rachel around here!” ~ Jordan, MM #1 pg. 149
- “A hopeless fight? Isn’t that the best kind?” ~ Rachel, MM#1 pg. 163
- “Sometimes smaller is better.” ~ Cassie, MM#1 pg. 164
- “Ax? I don’t need a science lecture. Visser Three is looking at me like I’m his beef jerky, so if you have a plan, just do it!” ~ Marco, MM#1 pg. 181
- “Marco, why are you screaming? It hurts my head.” ~ Ax, MM#1 pg. 196
- “We’re gonna die, you alien lunatic!” ~ Marco, MM#1 pg. 197
- “Let’s never, ever do that again.” ~ Marco, MM#1 pg. 199
- “There’s only one way to deal with fear: Be afraid. Be afraid, and then go ahead and do what you have to do, anyway.” ~ Tobias, MM#1 pg. 219
- “I thought we were beat. And guess what? We aren’t. Not yet. Not by a long shot.” ~ Cassie, MM#1 pg. 226
- “Just one word: hope.” ~ Cassie, MM#1 pg. 227
- “It was really raining. We were all soaked through and had wet sand caking our shoes. All except Rachel, who I swear has some magic ability to repel dirt, mud, and rainwater.” ~ Marco, MM#2 pg. 4
- “I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. We have got to do something about these funky morphing outfits. We are a disgrace to superheroes. Can you imagine us ever being in a comic book alongside Spider-Man? We’d look like the Clampetts.” ~ Marco, MM#2 pg. 5
- “Marco, you do realize that Spider-Man isn’t real, right? And even if he was, I don’t know what fabric that outfit of his is made from. Never bags at the knees or elbows. I mean, come on.” ~ Rachel, MM#2 pg. 5
- “You saved my life. Don’t undo it by killing me with algebra.” ~ Marco, MM#2 pg. 66
- “Humans may be technologically primitive, not to mention physically weak, what with tottering around on two spindly legs. But if you’re in a situation that requires instant adaptability to change, you should always have a couple of humans along with you.” ~ Ax, MM#2 pg. 70
- “You know what occurs to me. We survived, right? I mean, twice we’ve been jumped by tyrannosaurs or tyrannosauri, whichever. I’m still here and I’m not Captain Heroic. And Jake is still here, despite the fact he’s a big, galumphing, clumsy oaf, and not even all that bright.” ~ Marco, MM#2 pg. 113
- “I’ve always said you make a choice in this world. You can see the world as being tragic, or you can see it as being funny. Some things just flat-out aren’t funny, of course. But with very few exceptions, you can usually find the humor in life and in people. I guess if you want to see the world as being sad, terrible, unfair, boo-hoo boo-hoo, that’s fine. But man, what kind of life is that?” ~ Marco, MM#2 pg. 114
- <Rachel?> Cassie cried. <Is that you?!>
<Of course, it’s me,> Rachel said, sounding as if the idea of her being some little dinosaur who’d just jumped off a cliff, grabbed a pair of giant leather-wing dinosaurs and landed on an alien force field was totally normal. <Who else would it be?>
We were all treated to the utterly bizarre sight of an osprey attempting to hug a dinosaur.
<I know this is kind of obvious,> Marco began, <but you’re both alive!>
<Of course,> Tobias said. <You think getting eaten by a Kronosaurus was going to kill us? Nah. Or being chased by a pack of Deinonychus?>
<What are you, Dinosaur-boy?> Marco asked.
<Now you know what I’ve been putting up with since yesterday,> Rachel said. <This-a-saurus and that-a-saurus. Tobias rattles them off like they were, I don’t know, like any normal person would rattle off the names of major clothing designers.>
<What do you call the morphs you’re in?> I asked.
<Deinonychus. And those flying reptiles there are Pteranodons,> Tobias said. <Am I the only person who ever played with dinosaurs when I was little?>
<Hey. There are buildings down there,> Rachel said. <What’s going on? We were being chased by these aliens who are ants but who can join together to form bodies and carry guns. He...or they...said they were the Nesk.>
Every eye turned to Ax. He sounded a little exasperated. <I don’t know. Never heard of them. We are millions of years in the past, you know. I cannot be expected to know every species in the history of the galaxy.>
<At least sixty-five million years in the past,> Tobias said. <Cretaceous Age. The last age of dinosaurs.>
Marco moaned. <Oh, man. Sixty-five million years! I thought it was just maybe six or seven million years. I was holding out hope that we’d find some primitive people. You know, like in that old movie Quest for Fire? Only the babe tribe, not the hairy tribe. There would be this primitive tribe and because of my superior knowledge I would become their ruler.>
<Your superior knowledge of what, Marco? Your superior knowledge of Spider-Man’s super powers?> Rachel asked scornfully. <You run into a tribe of Neanderthals, you’d end up being their pet monkey.>
Everyone laughed. Even Marco.
[Page 148]
- “They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” ~ Rachel, MM#2 pg. 152
- <Do you inhabit this continent?>
<Well...> Prince Jake said. <That’s kind of a long story. Um, Ax? You probably can explain better than I can.>
<Yes, Prince Jake. We are from the future,> I said.
<Hey, that’s a much better explanation than Jake could have come up with,> Marco said. <“We are from the future.” Thank goodness we have a brilliant alien Space-boy here who can explain things.>
<The future?> the Mercora said. <How far in the future?>
<A...a long, long way,> I responded.
<Not to get all technical or anything,> Marco said dryly.
[Page 153]
- “Ha. Haha and also ha.” ~ Marco, MM#2 pg. 161
- “Yeah, we’re just animals ourselves. But we’re the animals who can think. We’re the animals who can imagine something better than kill or be killed. I don’t think predators are immoral. I’m not an idiot, whatever you may think. But I’m a human, okay? And I have to think and care, and I have to feel things.” ~ Cassie, MM#2 pg. 186
- “To be killed is a sadness. To kill is a sin.” ~ Mercora pilot, MM #2 pg. 205
- “Any time you hear a bunch of screaming and see people running, you’re going to find our girl Rachel somewhere close by.” ~ Tobias, MM#3 pg. 42
- “Why are we here? That is the question.” ~ Ax, MM#3 pg. 50
- “If George had been a big enough idiot to want to stand up in the middle of all this, his men would have figured he was a lunatic and turned around and learned to enjoy crumpets.” ~ Marco, MM#3 pg. 96
- “Visser Three’s been trying to kill us for some time, now. We’re hard to kill.” ~ Tobias, MM#3 pg. 176
- “War is obscene, the worst thing humans do. But warriors, the individual men, are the very best of humanity. Not because they are willing to kill. But because they are willing to risk death, to sacrifice themselves for others.” ~ Rachel, MM#3 pg. 181
- “What’s real, man? Real is just like...it’s like...you know, like whatever, right?” ~ Theresa Knowlton, MM#3 pg. 202
- “Love, man. Love is like...you know. Like reality, right?” ~ Theresa Knowlton, MM#3 pg. 202
- “The cookies formed by two thin, round, black discs with a layer of adhesive white substance between them are the finest accomplishment of your species!” ~ Ax, MM#4 pg. 95
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