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<Cassie>
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
About Cassie
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease from this point until the By Cassie section.
- “It’s when Cassie isn’t talking about animals and Marco and Rachel aren’t teasing each other that you have to worry.” ~ Jake, Book #11 pg. 112
- “Cassie, you know I love you. You know you’re my best friend in the whole world. But those jeans are so short you could wade across the Mississippi and not get them wet. When did you buy them? When you were four?” ~ Rachel, Book #14 pg. 5
- “You don’t want to mess with animals when Cassie is around.” ~ Marco, Book #15 pg. 3
- “Maybe we’ll lose, maybe we’ll win. But if we win and someday it’s all over, you’d better hope there are still plenty of Cassies in the world. You’d better hope that not everyone has decided it’s okay to do whatever it takes to win.” ~ Jake, Book #19 pg. 128
By Cassie
- “There isn’t much point in doing any of this if we forget why we’re doing it.” ~ Book #2 pg. 115 (116)
- “As far as I’m concerned, I can’t just do nothing while people are enslaved by the Yeerks.” ~ Book #3 pg. 28
- “Fishing is a matter of skill and luck. A smart fisherman learns not to become frustrated.” ~ Book #3 pg. 108
- “I can’t just ignore someone crying out for help.” ~ Book #4 pg. 26
- “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.” ~ 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.” ~ Book #4 pg. 142 (144)
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease beyond this point.
- “Sometimes smaller is better.” ~ MM#1 pg. 164
- “I thought we were beat. And guess what? We aren’t. Not yet. Not by a long shot.” ~ MM#1 pg. 226
- “Just one word: hope.” ~ MM#1 pg. 227
- “Here it is. School. Or, as I like to think of it—purgatory.” ~ Book #8 pg. 46
- “You don’t stop hoping just because it doesn’t always work out. You get more careful. You get wiser, maybe. But you keep hoping.” ~ Book #8 pg. 154
- “Sometimes even the craziest things happen to be true.” ~ Book #9 pg. 2
- “See? We should never get cocky. It’s tempting the irony gods.” ~ Book #10 pg. 148
- “There was no way he could know if it was the right thing to do. He just made the best decision he could. That’s all anyone can ask from any leader.” ~ Book #11 pg. 135
- “No one, man or alien, is messing this place up while I’m around to stop them.” ~ Book #11 pg. 146
- “It’s dangerous when Mom tries to be entertaining. See, she’ll think she has to be cool and all. She’ll start talking about ‘The Fudgies,’ or ‘Snoopy Diggity Dog,’ or ‘Boys Eleven Men,’ or ‘Nice is Neat.’” ~ Book #12 pg. 8
- “Now you’re worried. You’re thinking, Earth is being invaded by evil slugs from outer space and all we have on our side is a bunch of kids?” ~ Book #14 pg. 4
- “It’s a very strange world where a person called Crazy Helen is at least partly right.” ~ Book #14 pg. 20
- “And that’s when I dumped a bucket of water on Marco’s head and we all went home.” ~ Book #14 pg. 166
- “Um...is this stupid?” ~ Book #15 pg. 36
- “Rachel is one of those people who can walk through a hurricane, followed by a mud slide, followed by a flood, and come out clean, dry and with every hair in place.” ~ Book #19 pg. 20
- “Life was sacred. Even the life of an enemy.” ~ Book #19 pg. 68
- “We live in paradise, Rachel, and we don’t even know it. And we don’t know when it might end. We’d have to be fools not to enjoy it while we can.” ~ Book #19 pg. 159
- “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.” ~ Book #24 pg. 7
- “Here’s a clue: Don’t kill a sentient creature except in absolute self-defense, try not to wipe out endangered species, and if you’re going to raise animals for food, treat them as well as you possibly can.” ~ Book #25 pg. 96
- “We’re talking about an entire species, an entire race being evil. That isn’t possible.” ~ Book #26 pg. 75
- “That’s what Nazis and slave owners and people like that believed. That you can just take a whole race or whatever and say, ‘they’re all this or all that.’ That’s never going to be true.” ~ Book #26 pg. 75
- “You know, Rachel, you’re like the smart kid in class who sits in the front and always raises her hand. ‘I know! I know!’ Only with you it’s ‘I’ll go! I’ll go!’” ~ Book #27 pg. 84
- “I’ve heard of a three point turn. I guess this would be the thirty-point turn.” ~ Book #28 pg. 110
- “Now, you listen to me. No one, nothing can eliminate free will. Don’t be ridiculous. Even with a Yeerk in your head, you have free will. Not the will to do, but the will to think, to believe, to hope or love or whatever.” ~ Book #28 pg. 131
- “You know what’s cool? Humans. Nine out of ten humans are pretty decent creatures.” ~ Book #29 pg. 132
- “Every now and then, we actually win one.” ~ Book #29 pg. 152
- “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.” ~ MM#2 pg. 186
- “The only way to complete this mission was to begin it. The only way to return to Earth was to leave it.” ~ Book #34 pg. 64
- “Revenge is pointless and immoral.” ~ Book #38 pg. 54
- “You know, when your mother tells you not to stick your hand in a beaver lodge, you really should listen.” ~ Book #47 pg. 60
- “You don’t knowingly take innocent life. Not if you’re a decent person. Not if you’re not a murderer. The goal is irrelevant.” ~ Book #52 pg. 53
- “We still need you. You’re not done yet, Jake.” ~ Book #54 pg. 28
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