A | B-C | Da | Do-E | Fa-Fo | Fr-Ho | Hu | I | L | M | O-Pe | Pl-R | S | T-W
Quotes by Subject | Home
<Subjects: I>
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “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.” ~ Rachel, Book #1 pg. 22
- “Are you INSANE?!!” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 14
- “Are we seeing it? No. We’ve totally missed the fact that a spaceship the size of Delaware is hovering in midair.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 52
- “Excuse me. But does anyone else ever stop to realize that some of the things we talk about doing are totally INSANE?” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 133
- “Have our lives gotten really weird, or is it just me?” ~ Tobias, Book #4 pg. 87
- “Remember the good old days? When we used to argue over who had the best jump shot? Now it’s who has the best bird eyes.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 105
- “Oh, man, the things I do with my spare time.” ~ Jake, Book #6 pg. 7
- “This is a very complicated planet, Marco. That’s what I hear, anyway. And it’s a very strange universe. Anything could happen.” ~ Jake, Book #6 pg. 154 (153)
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease from this point to the next section.
- “Sometimes even the craziest things happen to be true.” ~ Cassie, Book #9 pg. 2
- “Let’s see, I’m behind in my homework. My dad thinks I’ve joined a gang because I’m never around. I don’t sleep much because every time I try I’m suddenly a termite again and I wake up screaming. I never get to just sit around and watch TV. And, in my spare time, I have to help figure out how we’re going to keep the Yeerks from turning some guy named Farrand into a Controller so they can wipe out the forest and hunt down the Bird-boy and the universe’s only almanac-reading Andalite. I mean, I knew the middle-school years would be tough, but this is a little much.” ~ Marco, Book #9 pg. 117
- “Remember when we used to have normal, sane conversations? You know, we’d talk about baseball or who had a crush on who?” ~ Marco, Book #11 pg. 29
- “We’re all going to end up in the nuthouse someday. You realize that, right?” ~ Marco, Book #11 pg. 141
- “Is it just me, or is this truly insane?” ~ Marco, Book #11 pg. 29
- “When you live in an insane world, you have to hold on to the little things.” ~ Rachel, Book #12 pg. 2
- “It’s a very strange world where a person called Crazy Helen is at least partly right.” ~ Cassie, Book #14 pg. 20
- “You’re telling me the Most Secret Place On Earth, the fabled Zone Ninety-one, the Holy Grail of conspiracy nuts, is hiding the secret of an Andalite toilet?” ~ Marco, Book #14 pg. 128
- “Does anyone else ever think maybe we’ve all just lost our minds? You know, like maybe none of this is real and we’re escaped lunatics from the local hospital for the hopelessly wacko?” ~ Marco, Book #14 pg. 149
- “You know, sometimes there’s just a very fine line between us and the Three Stooges.” ~ Marco, Book #15 pg. 128
- “So that's the nuthouse. I always suspected I’d end up here.” ~ Marco, Book #17 pg. 29
- “Exactly, Rachel. Eggs-ACT-lee. Zactly. We arrived back at the precise moment when we were snatched away. We were all yanked away at the same moment, so naturally we all arrived back at the same moment. Yanked. Yanked is a strange word. Yank. Yank-kut.”
“Yeah,” Marco said. “That’s what’s strange: the word ‘yanked.’ Us turning into mosquitoes to suck some guys blood so we could morph into him and instead ending up in the middle of some war to control psychic yellow frogs, and oh, by the way, blowing up a small continent full of Yeerks, saving an entire species, then getting back here to find out Coma-man woke up from a mosquito bite delivered by a morphed alien-slash-deer-slash-scorpion-slash-four-eyed centaur, that’s all totally normal. That’s just an average day. Dear Diary: another boring average day, till someone said ‘yanked.’”
I recognized his tone. Sarcasm. It is a form of humor. So I laughed using mouth-sounds.
“Hah. Hah-hah. Hah. Hah.” I considered, then added, “Hah.”
Prince Jake, Cassie, Marco, Rachel, and Tobias, in his own human morph, all stared at me.
“What was that?” Rachel demanded.
“I laughed.”
“Don’t...don’t do that, Ax,” Prince Jake said. “It’s disturbing somehow.”
“Yes, Prince Jake.”
“Don’t call me prince.”
“I will call you ‘The Jake formerly known as Prince.’”
Marco made a horrified face. “Oh, no. Now he’s making jokes. Bad, bad jokes.”
“Actually that was my joke,” Prince Jake said stiffly. “Oh, fine. I get it. You can’t laugh at my jokes. Okay. Great. I don’t even care.”
I was an Andalite, all alone, far, far, from home. Far from my own people. Except that sometimes your own people are not just the ones who look like you. Sometimes the people who are your own can be very different from you.
“Can we eat cinnamon buns now?” I asked hopefully. “Bun-zuh?”
[Book #18 pg. 159]
- “There are times when I realize my real life has gotten so insane that I can’t even be sure what is truly insane.” ~ Marco, Book #20 pg. 38
- “I’ve gone insane. Deedly deeedly deedly loopy! Nutso. Insane in the membrane.” ~ Marco, Book #21 pg. 7
- “You people are all crazy.” ~ David, Book #21 pg. 58
- “Have I mentioned that this is insane?” ~ Marco, Book #21 pg. 101
- “That does it, the votes are in, the Oscar for Absolute Insanity goes to us. Everyone go home. We rule the lunatic world.” ~ Marco, Book #24 pg. 127
- “Wasn’t it Journey to the Bottom of the Sea?” Marco asked.
“No, it was Voyage,” Jake confirmed.
“Journey sounds better,” Marco said.
Jake sighed. “Hey, time marches on, right? We’re in a hurry. What are you thinking, Cassie?”
“Calamari,” she said with a grin.
“Snails?” I said, frowning.
<I am not in favor of snails,> Ax said.
“Wait, that’s not—” Cassie said loudly.
<I had the misfortune to inadvertently eat one while feeding,> Ax continued. <I did not see it in time. I stepped on it and digested it.>
“You ate a snail through your hoof?” I asked. That picture temporarily replaced the image of me being squashed to the size of a Barbie doll on the ocean floor.
<Yes, and the meat portion was fine. However, once the snail’s body had been digested, the shell was very difficult to—>
“Ooookay, I think that’s probably enough about snails,” Jake said.
“Yeah, especially since calamari does not mean snail,” Cassie pointed out. “Escargot means snail. I was talking about—”
<I have an idea: Let’s all just stick to speaking English,> Tobias grumped.
“Squid!” Cassie yelled suddenly. The birds in the trees around us fell silent. So did we.
Until Tobias said, <Uh-uh. Calamari is octopus, not squid.>
“Oh. Who. CARES?” Cassie cried. “Squid. We can morph a giant squid! Giant squid dive really deep. And they have arms, so we could maybe get into the Pemalite ship.”
I met Marco’s gaze. “Why didn’t she just say that to begin with?”
“Could have saved a lot of time,” Marco agreed, playing along.
<What does any of this have to do with your Captain Nemo?> Ax wondered.
Cassie threw up her hands. “It’s a book. Journey to—”
“Ah HAH! It was Journey!”
“I mean Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” Cassie grated. “Captain Nemo was attacked by a giant squid.”
“Who won?” Marco asked.
“Wait a minute,” I said. “It wasn’t Journey or Voyage. It was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Jules Verne.”
Cassie looked like she might strangle me. Then she said, “Oh yeah. Voyage was a TV show. They run it on the Sci-Fi channel.”
“I thought it was on Nick at Night,” Marco said.
At which point everyone started giggling.
“Someone call the Chee and tell them they’re doomed,” I said. “Their only hope is a collection of idiot kids, standing around in the woods debating cable channels.”
[Book #27 pg. 65]
- “Every now and then the crazy becomes real.” ~ Jake, Book #31 pg. 3
- “I gotta stop hanging around with you people. You people are just plain strange.” ~ Erek, Book #32 pg. 40
- “Interesting? It’s bizarre! It’s weird. It’s wacko, creepy, horrific, incredible, absurd, and totally, totally, I mean totally insane. But also, kind of cool.” ~ Marco, Book #32 pg. 46
- “Unusual is our middle name.” ~ Tobias, Book #34 pg. 23
- “We are not exactly poster children for Mental Health week.” ~ Marco, Book #35 pg. 68
- “In a world where slugs can take over entire civilizations, anything is possible.” ~ Marco, Book #38 pg. 25
- “When you’re dealing with the Animorphs, never say it can’t get any weirder. It always does.” ~ Marco, Book #45 pg. 46
- <ARE YOU INSANE?> Marco, of course.
<Yeah,> I said. <Aren’t you?>
[Book #49 pg. 153]
Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “Boy, if Marco’s the sensible one, we’re all in serious trouble.” ~ Rachel, Book #3 pg. 16
- Warning: Spoilers for rerelease from this point to the next section.
- “Hey, it’s me. Please don’t remove my head. I use it sometimes.” ~ Marco, Book #15 pg. 135
- “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.” ~ Rachel, Book #16 pg. 70
- “They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” ~ Rachel, MM#2 pg. 152
- <Do you inhabit this continent?>
<Well...> Prince Jake said. <That’s kind of a long story. Um, Ax? You probably can explain better than I can.>
<Yes, Prince Jake. We are from the future,> I said.
<Hey, that’s a much better explanation than Jake could have come up with,> Marco said. <“We are from the future.” Thank goodness we have a brilliant alien Space-boy here who can explain things.>
<The future?> the Mercora said. <How far in the future?>
<A...a long, long way,> I responded.
<Not to get all technical or anything,> Marco said dryly.
[MM#2 pg. 153]
- Jake ran to snatch up some full-head masks. “I have Clinton, Gingrich, and a Teletubby. Dipsy, I think.”
“That’s not Dipsy,” Cassie corrected. “That’s Tinky Winky. Dipsy’s green and has the straight up thing. Tinky Winky’s the one with the triangle.”
<Who’s the little red one?> Marco wondered.
“Po,” Cassie said.
<Oh, yeah.>
“No offense,” Erek said, “but how on Earth have you people managed to avoid getting caught for this long?”
[Book #27 pg. 23]
- “Well, then,” Marco said, “we just won’t get caught. We won’t let them see us. Or hear us. Or smell us...”
“Or will we?” Jake interrupted.
Everyone turned to look at him. “Look, on the way over I started thinking.”
“Had to happen sooner or later,” Marco said in a loud whisper.
[Book #33 pg. 24]
- “A lawyer seems to be an odd type of human. Intelligent but in a way that is not terribly useful. At least to my Andalite sensibilities. All they seem to use their intellect for is argument. Not philosophical contemplation or artistic pursuit.” ~ Ax, Book #52 pg. 33
Have a favorite character, book, or quote? Fill out my survey and share your thoughts!
Find an error on my site or have a suggestion or comment? You can fill out my feedback form here.
All pictures and books copyrighted by Scholastic, Inc. Books by K.A. Applegate, and pictures by David B. Mattingly.