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Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
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- “Don’t call me ‘prince.’” ~ Jake, Book #10 pg. 126
- “There was no way he could know if it was the right thing to do. He just made the best decision he could. That’s all anyone can ask from any leader.” ~ Cassie, Book #11 pg. 135
- “A leader has to give hope. Even when he doesn’t have much himself.” ~ Jake, Book #11 pg. 142
- “My brother Elfangor once told me, ‘It’s a leader’s job to be lucky.’ Sometimes, success is just luck.” ~ Ax, Book #11 pg. 162
- “You know, Ax, there’s just the two of us now. We could probably drop the whole ‘prince’ thing. You could just call me ‘The Jake formerly known as Prince.’” ~ Jake, Book #18 pg. 147
- “Charge? I bet he’s always wanted to say that.” ~ Marco, Book #22 pg. 72
- “If George had been a big enough idiot to want to stand up in the middle of all this, his men would have figured he was a lunatic and turned around and learned to enjoy crumpets.” ~ Marco, MM#3 pg. 96
- “People want their leaders to act the way they wish they could act themselves.” ~ Jake, Book #37 pg. 32
- “We still need you. You’re not done yet, Jake.” ~ Cassie, Book #54 pg. 28
- “It is the willingness to take orders from your superiors and then to obey them that keeps an army from becoming a mob.” ~ Ax, Book #52 pg. 109
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- “Oh, man, the things I do with my spare time.” ~ Jake, Book #6 pg. 7
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- “Tobias, you are a beginning. You are a point on which an entire time line may turn.” ~ Ellimist, Book #13 pg. 89
- “Life! Life never feels so sweet as when you’ve come right up against death.” ~ Elfangor, AC pg. 105
- “Any life is better than none. And no matter how awful things seem, there is always meaning and purpose to be found.” ~ Arbron, AC pg. 154
- “Without life there is no despair, but without life there can also never be hope.” ~ Elfangor, AC pg. 219
- “Sometimes there is no right answer to the problems we face, but what can you do but keep trying to figure the answer out, anyway? What else can you do?” ~ Jake, Book #16 pg. 145
- “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?” ~ Rachel, Book #17 pg. 17
- “Life was sacred. Even the life of an enemy.” ~ Cassie, Book #19 pg. 68
- “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.” ~ Tobias, Book #19 pg. 128
- “Why are we here? That is the question.” ~ Ax, MM#3 pg. 50
- “Out of a respect for life, you have to endure.” ~ Elfangor, Book #33 pg. 131
- “You never really know how some things will turn out.” ~ Tobias, Book #43 pg. 135
- “They teach you about the solar system. They give you a glimpse of the Milky Way. But do they ever suggest how much is really out there? How many very real chances there are that somewhere beyond our ability to scope, in a place so distant our bodies couldn’t hope to live long enough to journey there, life thrives?” ~ Marco’s Dad, Book #45 pg. 11
- “Life was everywhere. A thousand thousand planets teeming with life.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 156
- “Life was winning the race against death. Good was outrunning evil.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 181
- “You are...you were...a happy accident. An unwitting contribution from the human race to its own survival.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 199
- “After a certain point, you just can’t go back to where you started. Even if you want to.” ~ Rachel, Book #48 pg. 2
- I wanted so much to live. I wanted so much to stay and not to leave. In a moment no answer would matter to me, but just the same, I wanted to know what I guess any dying person wants to know.
“Answer this, Ellimist: Did I...did I make a difference? My life, and my...my death...was I worth it? Did my life really matter?”
“Yes,” he said. “You were brave. You were strong. You were good. You mattered.”
“Yeah. Okay, then. Okay, then.”
[Book #54 pg. 24]
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- “Looks are not the important thing. It’s what’s in your head that counts.” ~ Rachel, Book #2 pg. 17
- “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.” ~ Rachel, Book #3 pg. 71
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- “Rachel's DNA is actually ninety-nine percent identical to Malibu Barbie.” ~ Marco, Book #11 pg. 112
- “Excuse me, but I do not use ‘Studboy’ as my screen name. Give me some credit. I use BaldwinBoyFive. You know, the missing fifth Baldwin brother. The really cool-looking one.” ~ Marco, Book #14 pg. 21
- “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
- “We’ll need a human morph that won’t give us away. It ain’t gonna be Ax. He attracts too many girls. And of course I can’t go. Same reason.” ~ Marco, Book #43 pg. 45
- “No looking. There’s no telling what the sight of my naked torso might make you do. I’m lethal at the beach.” ~ Marco, Book #49 pg. 39
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- “Love is pretty important. It’s like wearing a suit of armor. It makes you strong.” ~ Rachel, Book #2 pg. 112
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- “What is the matter with people that they don’t know all that really counts is that people who love each other be able to be together, live in peace, learn, work, tell boring stories and dumb jokes? What do they think they’re going to get that is better than that?” ~ Jake, Book #16 pg. 79
- “Love, man. Love is like...you know. Like reality, right?” ~ Theresa Knowlton, MM#3 pg. 202
- “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
- 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 needed love to win at the game of music.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 127
- “I had watched entire worlds die. I had lost my own race. How could I care so much about this one small, unsteady creature? How could her death cut me so deeply?” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 177
- I took her in my arms. The anaconda’s habitat was probably not the most romantic place on Earth, but it felt safe. “You know I love you.”
“I love you, too, Jake,” she said, and put her head on my shoulder.
“I guess if we win, if we survive, maybe we should, you know, get married and all. I mean, eventually. I know we’re young, but man, we’ve been through enough that it should count for a few extra years, shouldn’t it?”
I don’t know what I expected her answer to be, but I didn’t expect her to start crying. And not tears of joy, either.
“I would like that...eventually,” she said.
“But. But what?”
She sighed. “But, Jake, what are you going to be? What are you going to do?”
“Guess I thought I’d go to college,” I said.
“And study what, Jake? Me, I’ll go to college, I’ll become a doctor. I’ll never forget what’s happened, I’ll never even try, but I’ll be able to slip back into a normal life. But you, Jake?”
I shrugged and released her and stood away a bit. “I’m not Rachel, you know. I didn’t fall in love with the fight. I don’t need it like she does. I do it, I try and do it well, but it’s just a job, a duty.” I tried to make a joke out of it. “I mean, what do you think? The Pentagon is going to call me and make me Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? I’m not even old enough to enlist as a private.”
She didn’t laugh. She just looked at me.
“Look, Cassie, when this is over I’ll be done with it forever. I’ll go back to school, get an education, go to basketball games, get a driver’s license, go to college, figure out what it is I really want to do. And be with you. You and me.”
She forced a smile. “A year after it ends, if it ends, if we win, a year afterward if you want to be with me, we’ll talk about that again, okay?”
“I have to wait a year? Kind of harsh, isn’t it?”
“Hey, if we get married, Marco isn’t going to live with us, is he?” Cassie said, trying her best to jolly us both out of our dark moods.
It didn’t work.
[Book #53 pg. 75]
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