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Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.

About Tobias

“Don’t say the word ‘cage’ around Tobias. He’ll do some guerrilla-commando-Ninja-SWAT-team-hawk-from-hell attack on the Center. And he’ll talk Rachel into stomping your house flat.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 17 (In the rereleased version, "ninja" is not capitalized.)

“As long as you have me and the others, you aren’t lost, Tobias..” ~ Rachel, Book #3 pg. 90

Warning: Spoilers for rerelease from this point until the By Tobias section.

“Tobias, you are a beginning. You are a point on which an entire time line may turn.” ~ Ellimist, Book #13 pg. 89

“But do you know what you want, Tobias? And if you get it, will you still know?” ~ Ellimist, Book #13 pg. 90

“I’m glad you’re okay, Tobias. I hate it when you don’t get taken prisoner with us.” ~ Rachel, Book #36 pg. 118

“There’s no real point in worrying about what you might have done. The past is the past, Tobias. Let it go.” ~ Rachel, Book #43 pg. 135

“You know, Tobias, we have very weird dates.” ~ Rachel, Book #49 pg. 9

By Tobias

“There will be a next time. There will be a next time until the Andalites return.” ~ Book #2 pg. 175 (174)

“Something about the lonely, defeated, yet courageous Andalite prince touched me so deeply that I could never regret fighting to settle the score.” ~ Book #3 pg. 11

“As of right now, as of today, only one of us has been hurt. Me. But I’m not going to give up.” ~ Book #3 pg. 29

“I have a lot of time on my hands. No hands, exactly, but lots of time.” ~ Book #3 pg. 81

“There are human beings all over, trapped in bodies controlled by Yeerks. Trapped. Unable to escape. Rachel, I know how they feel. Maybe I can’t escape. Maybe I am trapped forever. But if we can free some of those others. Maybe...I don’t know. Maybe that’s what I need to do to stay human.” ~ Book #3 pg. 102

“People are funny - they never think something bad will happen to them.” ~ Book #3 pg. 112

“I’m a predator who kills for food. And I’m also a human being who...who grieves, over death.” ~ Book #3 pg. 153

“Be happy for me, and for all who fly free.” ~ Book #3 pg. 154

“Have our lives gotten really weird, or is it just me?” ~ Book #4 pg. 87

Warning: Spoilers for rerelease beyond this point.

“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.” ~ MM#1 pg. 219

“Freedom. Different bodies, different species, maybe. But who cares? We agree on what matters.” ~ Book #8 pg. 155

“The Pemalites were wiped out, maybe because they didn’t fight. Maybe they’d have lost even if they had fought. We’ll never know. But the Chee have lived for thousands of years. I know they’re androids, but they’re a species, too. They’ve survived without killing. Doesn’t something about that make you jealous? Don’t you wish we could say the same? Don’t you wish Homo sapiens could face the universe and honestly say, ‘We do not kill? We don’t enslave. We don’t make war’?” ~ Book #10 pg. 121

“I’m a freak of nature, Rachel. Any day I stay alive is a good day for me.” ~ Book #13 pg. 134

“Can someone interpret from Marco-babble to normal language?” ~ Book #14 pg. 26

“Thanks. Next time find a way to save me that doesn’t involve breaking any bones.” ~ Book #15 pg. 39

“Yes. I am going to be sarcastic the rest of the day. I nearly drowned. Now I’m going to go become the thing that nearly drowned me. I will be sarcastic until further notice.” ~ Book #15 pg. 40

“There’s always a choice. I can’t get mad at someone not wanting to take a life. I can’t get mad at someone for thinking life is sacred. I just can’t.” ~ Book #19 pg. 128

“Every human—Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, all humans—kind of lives on that edge between savage and saint. And the thing is that sometimes when you get pushed you do have to push back. And other times, you have to turn the other cheek.” ~ Book #23 pg. 119

“Any time you hear a bunch of screaming and see people running, you’re going to find our girl Rachel somewhere close by.” ~ MM#3 pg. 42

“Visser Three’s been trying to kill us for some time, now. We’re hard to kill.” ~ MM#3 pg. 176

“Unusual is our middle name.” ~ Book #34 pg. 23

“Better the evil you know than the evil you don’t know.” ~ Book #37 pg. 25

“Loyalty is all there is.” ~ Book #40 pg. 83

“Every choice is yours. Always has been. You were and are free.” ~ Book #41 pg. 124

“You can tell a lot about a person by the way they respond to a talking hawk.” ~ Book #43 pg. 11

“There is always a choice. In any and every situation. It’s usually the choice between bad and worse. But it’s still a choice.” ~ Book #43 pg. 116

“You never really know how some things will turn out.” ~ Book #43 pg. 135

“The X-Men have nothing on us, do they?” ~ Book #49 pg. 12

“Amazing, a kid’s capacity to ignore the bizarre.” ~ Book #49 pg. 89

“This is what mothers did. This is how they acted. They put themselves in danger to save their kids.” ~ Book #49 pg. 91

“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.” ~ Book #49 pg.103

“I don’t hate anybody. It’s strange, but right now, I don’t even hate the Yeerks. It’s like, they’re trying to survive. And we’re trying to survive. I’m not really sure why it has to be an either-or thing.” ~ Book #52 pg. 76

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