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Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “So why should I get killed for strangers? We can’t stay lucky forever. Don’t you people understand that? Sooner or later, we’ll slip up. Sooner or later we’ll be standing around here crying because Jake or Rachel or Cassie or Tobias is gone.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 28
- “Visser Three wrong? Maybe. But I’m not the fool who’s going to try and tell him.” ~ Chapman, Book #4 pg. 38
- “It’s not bad enough we have to fight Hork-Bajir and Taxxons and Visser Three, we also have to fight sharks? Sharks?” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 82
- “The higher the danger, the higher the honor.” ~ Ax, Book #5 pg. 20
- “We’re mostly against the idea of getting killed.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 21
- “Jake? Do me a favor. Don’t ever say ‘so far, so good.’ The only time anyone ever says ‘so far, so good’ is right before everything blows up in his face.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 29
- “Oh, I have a very bad feeling about this.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 36 (37)
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease from this point to the next section.
- “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
- “We’re gonna die, you alien lunatic!” ~ Marco, MM#1 pg. 197
- “I have such a bad feeling about this.” ~ Marco, Book #10 pg. 149
- “This has ‘big trouble’ written all over it.” ~ Jake, Book #11 pg. 13
- “Rachel, why is it whenever I hear you say ‘let’s do it’ my blood runs cold?” ~ Marco, Book #11 pg. 23
- “Ah, splitting up, eh? Well, that will only affect the order in which I kill each of you. What have I heard the human children say? Ah yes, eeny, meeny, miney, moo.” ~ Visser Three, Book #12 pg. 99
- “What could be more relaxing than going on a hike with a couple of fugitive space goblins while being hunted by giant worms and probably Visser Three himself? And all the time knowing we’re following the plan of an all-powerful galactic pain-in-the-butt who gets us to do all his dirty work?” ~ Marco, Book #13 pg. 113
- “Um...is this stupid?” ~ Cassie, Book #15 pg. 36
- “Thanks. Next time find a way to save me that doesn’t involve breaking any bones.” ~ Tobias, Book #15 pg. 39
- <Now, this is an interesting human concept,> Ax said approvingly. <This hologram makes it almost appear that we are under the water.>
“Ax? It’s not a hologram,” Rachel said.
<Then...we are underwater? Protected only by badly made human plastic?>
“Yeah.”
<Why do you humans do things like this?>
[Book #15 pg. 80]
- “Hey, it’s me. Please don’t remove my head. I use it sometimes.” ~ Marco, Book #15 pg. 135
- “Brr-REEET! Brr-EEET! Warning. Warning. Containment seals will shut down in three minutes. Extreme hazard. Countdown beginning. Countdown will be in intervals of ten seconds. Thank you and have a nice day!” ~ Automated computer voice, Book #15 pg.146
- “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
- “Hey, no one is going to die on the way there. I’ll get us all there. Everyone will still be available to die when we get there.” ~ Marco, Book #28 pg. 105
- “On behalf of General Custer, let me welcome you to the last stand.” ~ Marco, Book #28 pg. 124
- <Igniting sticks of plant and paper?> Ax wondered. <Why is that such a serious offense?>
<Because cigarettes can kill you,> I answered. <That is, if a golden eagle or a case of coccidiosis doesn’t get you first.>
Rachel gave me a dirty look. “So not funny.”
“And because they become an addiction,” Cassie said.
“Like Marco and computer games,” Rachel added.
“Or Rachel and Calvin Klein clearance racks.” Marco shot her a sideways glance. She ignored him.
<Ah. Yes. As we say on the home world: “A test of will may lead to wisdom; a loss of will breeds but defeat.”>
“Hey, I saw that same thing in a fortune cookie once.”
[Book #33 pg. 22]
- “Don’t eat me! I’m serious: Do not eat me!” ~ Marco, Book #33 pg. 46
- “So, it’s like a volcano down there, with lava and everything,” Marco said. “How hot is that lava? You know, in case we fell in?”
“You’re not helping,” I told him, without raising my eyes from my feet. “Really not.”
<You do not have to worry about the lava, Cassie,> Ax comforted me.
“Thanks, Ax,” I answered.
<If you fell, I believe you would be incinerated before you hit the actual magma,> he continued.
[Book #34 pg. 95]
- <One minute we’re watching this whale the size of a FedEx truck dropping out of the sky and we’re thinking, Uh-oh, she’s not big enough to take down that helicopter and live through it—>
<You weren’t thinking it, you were screaming it,> Rachel said sweetly.
<Screeching like a bad set of brakes,> Jake teased.
<Emitting a loud and continual series of high-pitched shrieks similar to an unauthorized entry into a Dome ship air lock,> Ax added.
Silence.
<Well, it was an accurate comparison,> Ax said defensively.
<Yeah.> Marco giggled. <But it sure wasn’t funny, Ax-man,> he said, poking his sleek head up out of the water and giving one of those crazy, Flipperesque cackles.
<Your humor is highly overrated,> Ax muttered.
<It certainly is when Marco uses it,> Jake said.
<Anyway,> Marco said loudly, <here you are falling through the sky, and all of a sudden BOOM—>
“A gull got sucked into the helicopter’s engine. But that was nothing compared to the ant-Cassie that almost killed me back in the woods with its pincers.” I stopped. “The buffalo saved my life.”
<You had an aunt who tried to kill you with her pincers?> Rachel said, giving me a playful nudge. <Boy, and I thought Tobias’s family was bad.>
“Not that kind of an ant,” I said crossly.
<I know,> Rachel said. <Geez, where’s your sense of humor?>
<Probably caught back in the Dome ship’s air lock with Ax’s,> Marco muttered.
[Book #39 pg. 117]
- “The coast appears to be clear. Why do humans refer to the ‘coast’ when talking about a precarious situation?” ~ Ax, Book #43 pg. 66
- <Ready?> Jake eased the door open. <Just act like you belong.> He stepped into the hall.
Marco sauntered after him. <Famous last words.>
[Book #49 pg. 40]
- “I assume we’ll be taking this buggy for a joyride.” Tobias had morphed into his human self. “If we can figure out how to start it.”
“What do you mean, if we can figure out how to start it? You happen to be sitting next to the Tank Commando master of the Hork-Bajir valley.”
“Right. Video-game expertise.” He glanced around at all the switches and levers. “So, what, we just rev it up and barrel off the side of the train?”
“Yeah. The train’s stopped. The ground’s almost level with the flatcar. Should be easy. I saw a tank crew do it on the History Channel.”
“Ah. Video games and cable. How reassuring.” He pulled a helmet from a hook on the side of the turret. “I should probably wear this.”
[Book #51 pg. 28]
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease from this point to the next section.
- “I’m glad you’re okay, Tobias. I hate it when you don’t get taken prisoner with us.” ~ Rachel, Book #36 pg. 118
- “Ax,” Cassie said. “I think you have what is commonly known as a crush.”
<A what?>
“A feeling that makes it hard for you to see the truth, if the truth is unpleasant,” she explained.
“Yeah, you know, like the way Cassie can’t see that Jake is really just a pinhead,” Marco said.
Prince Jake threw a horse comb at Marco that Marco dodged. Marco and Prince Jake are best friends. This sort of behavior appears to be typical of male friendships.
[Book #38 pg. 26]
- He smiled at me. He’d been sitting with one hand wrapped around his Coke, and now he laid it flat on the table so that his fingertips were touching mine. He looked into my eyes. A little flip of hair fell down over his eyebrow. “Except you’re back now, Cassie. So we won. We definitely won.”
I turned his hand over and squeezed it. He squeezed back.
He glanced sideways at Rachel and Tobias, then leaned toward me and lowered his voice. “I was kind of hoping we could hang out. You know, to talk.”
“Talk?” Rachel rolled her eyes. “Puh-leez. He wants to give you a big, fat, sloppy kiss. You should’ve seen him. He was a total zombie the whole time you were gone.”
I smiled at Jake. “A zombie? Really?”
Jake shot Rachel a dirty look, then stared down at his french fries. “Depends on your definition of a zombie.”
“How’s this for a definition?” Tobias said. “Somebody who can’t eat, can’t sleep, spends every minute of the night and day searching the airport and all other known Yeerk hangouts, and can only utter one intelligible sentence: ‘I have to FIND HER.’”
Jake rolled his eyes. “Okay, so I was a zombie.”
[Book #44 pg. 140]
- “You know, Tobias, we have very weird dates.” ~ Rachel, Book #49 pg. 9
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