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Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
About Jake
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease from this point until the By Jake section.
- “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
- “Charge? I bet he’s always wanted to say that.” ~ Marco, Book #22 pg. 72
- “Jake didn’t understand any of it any better than the rest of us did. If he defeated the Yeerks, freed humanity, rescued Earth, that was good. But that was a bonus. His main goal was much simpler. To save his family. That goal was what had given him strength. That goal was what had kept him sane. Allowed him to retain a center of calm focus amid the awful chaos.” ~ Tobias, Book #49 pg. 103
- “We still need you. You’re not done yet, Jake.” ~ Cassie, Book #54 pg. 28
By Jake
- “Rachel may look like Little Miss Teen Model or whatever, but she thinks she’s Storm from the X-Men.” ~ Book #1 pg. 4
- “If you think you’re brave, well, wait till you’re cowering a few feet away from a monster who can turn you into coleslaw in about three seconds flat.” ~ Book #1 pg. 33
- “I guess you never really know someone till you see them scared. And even scared to death, with tears running down her face, Rachel had strength to spare.” ~ Book #1 pg. 39
- “Somewhere up there was...hope.” ~ Book #1 pg. 184 (185)
- “Until then, we fight.” ~ Book #1 pg. 184 (185)
- “You don’t quit the sport just because you lose one game.” ~ Book #2 pg. 24
- “We’re not beaten yet.” ~ Book #2 pg. 146 (145)
- “If I have to lose, I’d rather lose fighting than let him catch us one by one.” ~ Book #4 pg. 137 (139)
- “We have to have hope.” ~ Book #5 pg. 126
- “Oh, man, the things I do with my spare time.” ~ Book #6 pg. 7
- “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.” ~ Book #6 pg. 140 (138)
- “Don’t ever give up.” ~ 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.” ~ Book #6 pg. 154 (153)
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease beyond this point.
- “Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!” ~ MM#1 pg. 139
- “Ax...I mean, Phillip.... You know how I mentioned you can’t eat cigarette butts or dryer lint? Add engine oil to the list.” ~ Book #9 pg. 60
- “Don’t call me ‘prince.’" ~ Book #10 pg. 126
- “This has ‘big trouble’ written all over it.” ~ Book #11 pg. 13
- “It’s when Cassie isn’t talking about animals and Marco and Rachel aren’t teasing each other that you have to worry.” ~ Book #11 pg. 112
- “A leader has to give hope. Even when he doesn’t have much himself.” ~ Book #11 pg. 142
- “Do what’s right. Forget about what anybody thinks. Do what’s right.” ~ Book #15 pg. 151
- “You never really get past the fear. Fear eats a little hole in you, like rust in the fender of a car. You fill the hole up with putty and sand it smooth and paint it over so no one else can see it. But it’s never really as good as new.” ~ Book #16 pg. 75
- “What is the matter with people that they don’t know all that really counts is that people who love each other be able to be together, live in peace, learn, work, tell boring stories and dumb jokes? What do they think they’re going to get that is better than that?” ~ Book #16 pg. 79
- “Sometimes there is no right answer to the problems we face, but what can you do but keep trying to figure the answer out, anyway? What else can you do?” ~ Book #16 pg. 145
- “Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know? Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.” ~ Book #17 pg. 104
- “You know, Ax, there’s just the two of us now. We could probably drop the whole ‘prince’ thing. You could just call me ‘The Jake formerly known as Prince.’” ~ Book #18 pg. 147
- “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.” ~ Book #19 pg. 128
- “I guess sometimes you have to choose between smart, sane ruthlessness, and totally stupid, insane hope. You can’t just pick one and stick with it, either. Each time it comes up, you have to try and make your best decision. Most of the time, I guess I have to go with being smart and sane. But I don’t want to live in a world where people don’t try the stupid, crazy, hopeful thing sometimes.” ~ Book #19 pg. 145
- “How do you stand on the sidelines when evil is running amok?” ~ Book #26 pg. 111
- “Every now and then the crazy becomes real.” ~ Book #31 pg. 3
- “Sometimes even the good guys do bad things. Doesn’t mean there’s no difference between good and evil.” ~ Book #31 pg. 115
- “In war any time you wake up to see the sunrise it’s a victory.” ~ Book #31 pg. 137
- “People want their leaders to act the way they wish they could act themselves.” ~ Book #37 pg. 32
- “Too bad there’s no door. Rachel? Marco? Ax? Make a door.” ~ Book #38 pg. 10
- “I’d decided a while back to give up analyzing what was happening to me and why. I’d figured that sanity depended on accepting the reality I saw, this dream or nightmare or vision. But that didn’t mean there weren’t times when all I wanted were answers—definite concrete answers.” ~ Book #41 pg. 119
- “Okay. The Yeerks want Earth. Well, they can’t have it.” ~ Book #46 pg. 22
- “Doesn’t it always come down to each one of us, all alone, asking ourselves: Am I right in doing whatever it takes for the greater good? And, do I trust myself enough to know I won’t become evil in the process? It always comes down to something that personal.” ~ Book #46 pg. 26
- “Hope, even false hope, is better than none at all.” ~ Book #47 pg. 7
- “Rachel is the original Nike girl: Just do it. Just do it, and if that doesn’t work do it harder and meaner.” ~ Book #53 pg. 16
- “The fact that you know you’ll be dragged in the gutter doesn’t mean you don’t try like hell to stay out of it. You don’t get a lot of straight-up good or evil choices. You get shades of gray.” ~ Book #53 pg. 97
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