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Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
About Rachel
- “Rachel may look like Little Miss Teen Model or whatever, but she thinks she’s Storm from the X-Men.” ~ Jake, Book #1 pg. 4
- “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.” ~ Jake, Book #1 pg. 39
- “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
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease from this point until the By Rachel section.
- “Rachel, Rachel, Rachel! Everything is always Rachel around here!” ~ Jordan, MM#1 pg. 149
- “Yikes! Everytime I see you, you’re taller. Stop it. Stop growing.” ~ Marco, Book #9 pg. 22
- “Rachel, why is it whenever I hear you say ‘let’s do it’ my blood runs cold?” ~ Marco, Book #11 pg. 23
- “Rachel’s DNA is actually ninety-nine percent identical to Malibu Barbie.” ~ Marco, Book #11 pg. 112
- “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
- “Oooh. Don’t hurt me with the chakram of your wit, Xena.” ~ Marco, Book #16 pg. 41
- “Anytime Rachel says ‘let’s do it’ in that insane, suicidal, rock-and-roll way of hers, disaster can’t be far away.” ~ Marco, Book #17 pg. 40
- “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
- “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.” ~ Cassie, Book #19 pg. 20
- “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.” ~ Cassie, Book #24 pg. 7
- “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!’" ~ Cassie, Book #27 pg. 84
- “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
- “No. No. The sun does not rise in the west, the Chicago Cubs don’t win the World Series, Scully never, ever believes Mulder, and Rachel does not cry. These are the things I know.” ~ Marco, Book #32 pg. 33
- “You are...you were...a happy accident. An unwitting contribution from the human race to its own survival.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 199
- “Rachel is the original Nike girl: Just do it. Just do it, and if that doesn’t work do it harder and meaner.” ~ Jake, Book #53 pg. 16
By Rachel
- “We’re off the map of weirdness by this point. But unless we’re all just dreaming, I think we’d better deal with this.” ~ Book #1 pg. 22
- “Looks are not the important thing. It’s what’s in your head that counts.” ~ Book #2 pg. 17
- “If you’re going to listen to your CD player in math class with an earphone hidden under your hair, you have to remember not to start singing along.” ~ Book #2 pg. 46 (The rerelease changes "your CD player" to "music".)
- “Don’t mess with me. You may be bigger than me, you may scare me, you may make me run away, but if I have to I am ready to fight.” ~ Book #2 pg. 82
- “I decided that I don’t care what it takes, or how many risks I have to run. I don’t care what happens to me. I hate these Yeerks. I hate them. I hate them. And I will find a way to stop them.” ~ Book #2 pg. 110
- “Love is pretty important. It’s like wearing a suit of armor. It makes you strong.” ~ Book #2 pg. 112
- “Fear is like a worm inside you. It eats you. It chews your guts. It bores holes in your heart. It makes you feel hollow. Empty. Alone.” ~ Book #2 pg. 149 (148)
- “Boy, if Marco’s the sensible one, we’re all in serious trouble.” ~ Book #3 pg. 16
- “What counts is what is in your head and in your heart. A person isn’t his body. A person isn’t what’s on the outside.” ~ Book #3 pg. 71
- “As long as you have me and the others, you aren’t lost, Tobias.” ~ Book #3 pg. 90
- “Killing because it’s the only way you can eat, because that’s the way nature designed you, that’s one thing. Killing because you want power or control is evil.” ~ Book #3 pg. 101
- “You grind my nerves sometimes, Marco, always joking the way you do. But keep it up, okay? We need a sense of humor.” ~ Book #5 pg. 98
- “It doesn’t look like I’m going to fit through this doorway. So I guess I’ll have to make the door a little bigger.” ~ Book #6 pg. 97
- “With one twitch of my trunk I can make you a shish kebab. Now are you going to listen to me?” ~ Book #7 pg. 11
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease beyond this point.
- “A hopeless fight? Isn’t that the best kind?” ~ MM#1 pg. 163
- “Don’t worry. I don’t look down on you for being short, Marco. I look down on you just for being you.” ~ Book #9 pg. 22
- “Let’s do it.” ~ Book #11 pg. 23
- “The thing about fear is you can’t be afraid of it. I know that sounds confusing. I guess what I mean is, be afraid if you have to, right? Fear is like this vicious little worm that lives inside you and eats you alive. You have to fight it. You have to know it’s there. You have to accept that you’ll never get rid of it, but fight it just the same. Brave isn’t about not being afraid. It’s about being scared to death and still not giving in.” ~ Book #12 pg. 2
- “When you live in an insane world, you have to hold on to the little things.” ~ Book #12 pg. 2
- “When you start taking advice from Marco, the end of civilization is very near.” ~ Book #12 pg. 9
- “I have a natural talent for spending money. What can I say? It’s my burden to bear.” ~ Book #12 pg. 53
- “Free or dead!” ~ Book #13 pg. 109
- “Marco, you should never be singing anything. I’ve heard you sing.” ~ Book #13 pg. 111
- “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?” ~ Book #14 pg. 5
- “Somehow you are grinding my nerves, Ax. And that’s supposed to be Marco’s job.” ~ Book #14 pg. 121
- “Be sure and leave your brain to science when you die, Marco. After all, they’re the ones with the microscopes it’d take to find it.” ~ Book #16 pg. 70
- “Marco, Marco, Marco. You do like to cling to your pathetic little dreams, don’t you?” ~ Book #17 pg. 10
- “How big a moron do you have to be not to figure out that at least if you stay alive you have some hope, as opposed to being dead and having zero?” ~ Book #17 pg. 17
- “This society is way too celebrity-obsessed. It is so superficial.” ~ Book #17 pg. 20
- “Sometimes it’s hard to get out of a role once you’ve started playing the part.” ~ Book #17 pg. 108
- “What can you do when you’re buried alive? You can either sit there screaming in blind, idiot panic. Or you can dig your way out.” ~ Book #17 pg. 160
- “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.” ~ MM#2 pg. 5
- “They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” ~ MM#2 pg. 152
- “Marco is Urkel.” ~ Book #23 pg. 117
- “I will never surrender my free will.” ~ Book #27 pg. 3
- “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.” ~ MM#3 pg. 181
- “I’m glad you’re okay, Tobias. I hate it when you don’t get taken prisoner with us.” ~ Book #36 pg. 118
- “Things happen fast. You just have to make the best decision you can and then go for it.” ~ Book #43 pg. 134
- “There’s no real point in worrying about what you might have done. The past is the past, Tobias. Let it go.” ~ Book #43 pg. 135
- “Cassie, buying a postcard at the zoo is not shopping. Say it with me now. Postcard. Zoo. Not. Shopping.” ~ Book #44 pg. 138
- “After a certain point, you just can’t go back to where you started. Even if you want to.” ~ Book #48 pg. 2
- “You know, Tobias, we have very weird dates.” ~ Book #49 pg. 9
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