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<Subjects: Do-E>
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “Until then, we fight.” ~ Jake, Book #1 pg. 184 (185)
- “You don’t quit the sport just because you lose one game.” ~ Jake, Book #2 pg. 24
- “As of right now, as of today, only one of us has been hurt. Me. But I’m not going to give up.” ~ Tobias, Book #3 pg. 29
- “If I have to lose, I’d rather lose fighting than let him catch us one by one.” ~ Jake, Book #4 pg. 137 (139)
- “I have a saying for you. I got it from a fortune cookie. ‘Fall down seven times, get up eight.’ You know what that means? That means you don’t ever just lie there. You always get up. You always come back for more. You never surrender. Maybe you die, but you never surrender.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 137 (138)
- “Don’t ever give up.” ~ Jake, Book #6 pg. 153 (152)
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- “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.” ~ Rachel, Book #17 pg. 160
- “If you really believe in something, you must be willing to sacrifice all, to endure anything, to fight against all adversaries, no matter how large or small. You must be willing to never give in, never surrender, until the battle is won. The battle, ladies and gentlemen, the battle...to love!” ~ William Roger Tennant, Book #35 pg. 109
- “If I’m going to kick, I don’t want to go staring at the ceiling of my bedroom.” ~ Marco, Book #42 pg. 54
- “The treacherous aliens have severed my limb! But I shall still hobble on to victory!” ~ A Helmacron, Book #42 pg. 125
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- “No, I haven’t had any weird dreams about the sea. I’ve had weird dreams about my sheets trying to strangle me. I’ve had weird dreams about falling from way up high and when I finally land I’m in Mister Roger’s Neighborhood talking to King Friday. I’ve had weird dreams about that woman of Baywatch...hmm, well, that does kind of involve the ocean, I guess.” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 14 (The rerelease changes "Mister Roger's Neighborhood" to "Sesame Street", "King Friday" to "Elmo", and "woman on Baywatch" to "woman who lifeguards at the beach".)
- “The fact that I once dreamed about staying home and watching TV in total safety, that means nothing, right?” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 27
- “How about my dream of living long enough to get a driver’s license?” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 28
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- “Marco, Marco, Marco. You do like to cling to your pathetic little dreams, don’t you?” ~ Rachel, Book #17 pg. 10
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- “Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!” ~ Jake, MM#1 pg. 139
- “I’ve heard of a three point turn. I guess this would be the thirty-point turn.” ~ Cassie, Book #28 pg. 110
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- “We aren’t supposed to be rescuing animals. We’re supposed to be rescuing the entire human race from being enslaved by the Yeerks.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 15
- “Since all of you guys think you have to save the world, and since you’re all my friends, more or less, I figure someone has to keep you from being total idiots.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 15
- “Why is it our job to get killed?” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 28
- “As far as I’m concerned, I can’t just do nothing while people are enslaved by the Yeerks.” ~ Cassie, Book #3 pg. 28
- “I can’t just ignore someone crying out for help.” ~ Cassie, Book #4 pg. 26
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- “From the water that gave birth to us. From the grass that feeds us. For the freedom that unites us. We rise to the stars. Freedom is my only cause. Duty to the people, my only guide. Obedience to my prince, my only glory. The destruction of my enemies, my most solemn vow. I, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, Andalite warrior-cadet, offer my life.” ~ Ax, Book #8 pg. 33
- “How do you stand on the sidelines when evil is running amok?” ~ Jake, Book #26 pg. 111
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- “We’re talking about an entire species, an entire race being evil. That isn’t possible.” ~ Cassie, 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.” ~ Cassie, Book #26 pg. 75
- “Better the evil you know than the evil you don’t know.” ~ Tobias, Book #37 pg. 25
- “It wouldn’t be a party without the Earl of Evil.” ~ Marco, Book #47 pg. 111
- “Marco’s mother was host to the former Visser One. It must have been horrible. But the former Visser One was one Yeerk. The current Visser One is one Yeerk.”
<He is the Yeerks’ leader on this planet,> I replied.
“It still doesn’t mean he represents each and every Yeerk,” Cassie insisted. “Humans have had some pretty evil leaders, too. Thousands, sometimes millions of people have followed those leaders, sometimes willingly, sometimes not. Sometimes because they were just too afraid to say no. What if some other species decided to wipe out the human race based on the existence of a few powerful people? What if that species decided all humans were cruel, based on the actions of a handful of sociopaths?”
[Book #52 pg. 68]
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