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Page numbers in parentheses are for the rereleased editions.
- “Jake, I just told you I didn’t want to know.” ~ Marco, Book #3 pg. 79
- “I have a lot of time on my hands. No hands, exactly, but lots of time.” ~ Tobias, Book #3 pg. 81
- “Fishing is a matter of skill and luck. A smart fisherman learns not to become frustrated.” ~ Cassie, Book #3 pg. 108
- “I believe in minding my own business.” ~ Marco, Book #5 pg. 2
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- “A hopeless fight? Isn’t that the best kind?” ~ Rachel, MM#1 pg. 163
- “See? We should never get cocky. It’s tempting the irony gods.” ~ Cassie, Book #10 pg. 148
- “You think you know me. Unfortunately, you’re right.” ~ Marco, Book #11 pg. 29
- “But do you know what you want, Tobias? And if you get it, will you still know?” ~ Ellimist, Book #13 pg. 90
- “Somehow you are grinding my nerves, Ax. And that’s supposed to be Marco’s job.” ~ Rachel, Book #14 pg. 121
- “Sometimes it’s hard to get out of a role once you’ve started playing the part.” ~ Rachel, Book #17 pg. 108
- “A fool is strong so that others will see. A wise person is strong for himself.” ~ Toby, Book #23 pg. 116
- “I’m no brain surgeon. But it sounds to me like we’re talking brain surgery here.” ~ Marco, Book #29 pg. 32
- “No. No. The sun does not rise in the west, the Chicago Cubs don’t win the World Series, Scully never, ever believes Mulder, and Rachel does not cry. These are the things I know.” ~ Marco, Book #32 pg. 33
- “You can tell a lot about a person by the way they respond to a talking hawk.” ~ Tobias, Book #43 pg. 11
- “Perhaps fourteen fingers are four too many.” ~ Ax, Book #43 pg. 44
- “Not on the past but on the future fix your range finder.” ~ Ellimist, EC pg. 24
- “You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store.” ~ Ax, Book #49 pg. 111
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- “They fight fiercely for their children, these humans.” ~ Iniss 226, Book #2 pg. 140
- “The point is, that I agreed to be made into a host. I agreed to...to...I agreed to surrender my freedom. To become a Controller. To accept this filthy thing in my head. To accept your control. I agreed...but only if you would spare my daughter.” ~ Chapman, Book #2 pg. 159 (158)
- “If you harm my daughter I will fight you. I will fight you forever.” ~ Chapman, Book #2 pg. 161 (160)
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- “I have a question. If you already have a Hewlett Aldershot and a Hewlett Aldershot, Jr., what kind of parent is going to go and inflict that name on a third kid? He must have gotten beat up after school every single day of his life.” ~ Marco, Book #18 pg. 14
- “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
- “This is what mothers did. This is how they acted. They put themselves in danger to save their kids.” ~ Tobias, Book #49 pg. 91
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- “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’?” ~ Tobias, Book #10 pg. 121
- “To be killed is a sadness. To kill is a sin.” ~ Mercora pilot, MM #2 pg. 205
- “We may be simple people. But we don’t use biology to invent monsters. And we don’t enslave other species. And we don’t unleash a plague of parasites on the galaxy, endangering every other free species, and then go swaggering around like the lords of the universe. No, we’re too simple for all that. We’re too stupid to lie and manipulate. We’re too stupid to be ruthless. We’re too stupid to know how to build powerful weapons designed to annihilate our enemies. Until you came, Andalite, we were too stupid to know how to kill.” ~ Dak Hamee, HBC pg. 172
- “The Pemalites may have been the most advanced species ever to exist in the history of the universe. So advanced they forgot all about primitive stuff like wars and worry and sadness.” ~ Marco, Book #25 pg. 11
- “From the rising of the sun to the setting to its rising again, we replace what is hard to endure with what is sweet to remember, and find peace.” ~ Ax, Book #33 pg. 38
- “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
- “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.” ~ Tobias, Book #52 pg. 76
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- “We’re not beaten yet.” ~ Jake, Book #2 pg. 146 (145)
- “There will be a next time. There will be a next time until the Andalites return.” ~ Tobias, Book #2 pg. 175 (174)
- “We made it. I don’t know where we made it to, but we made it.” ~ Marco, Book #4 pg. 107
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- “I thought we were beat. And guess what? We aren’t. Not yet. Not by a long shot.” ~ Cassie, MM#1 pg. 226
- “I’m a freak of nature, Rachel. Any day I stay alive is a good day for me.” ~ Tobias, Book #13 pg. 134
- “You know what occurs to me. We survived, right? I mean, twice we’ve been jumped by tyrannosaurs or tyrannosauri, whichever. I’m still here and I’m not Captain Heroic. And Jake is still here, despite the fact he’s a big, galumphing, clumsy oaf, and not even all that bright.” ~ Marco, MM#2 pg. 113
- <Rachel?> Cassie cried. <Is that you?!>
<Of course, it’s me,> Rachel said, sounding as if the idea of her being some little dinosaur who’d just jumped off a cliff, grabbed a pair of giant leather-wing dinosaurs and landed on an alien force field was totally normal. <Who else would it be?>
We were all treated to the utterly bizarre sight of an osprey attempting to hug a dinosaur.
<I know this is kind of obvious,> Marco began, <but you’re both alive!>
<Of course,> Tobias said. <You think getting eaten by a Kronosaurus was going to kill us? Nah. Or being chased by a pack of Deinonychus?>
<What are you, Dinosaur-boy?> Marco asked.
<Now you know what I’ve been putting up with since yesterday,> Rachel said. <This-a-saurus and that-a-saurus. Tobias rattles them off like they were, I don’t know, like any normal person would rattle off the names of major clothing designers.>
<What do you call the morphs you’re in?> I asked.
<Deinonychus. And those flying reptiles there are Pteranodons,> Tobias said. <Am I the only person who ever played with dinosaurs when I was little?>
<Hey. There are buildings down there,> Rachel said. <What’s going on? We were being chased by these aliens who are ants but who can join together to form bodies and carry guns. He...or they...said they were the Nesk.>
Every eye turned to Ax. He sounded a little exasperated. <I don’t know. Never heard of them. We are millions of years in the past, you know. I cannot be expected to know every species in the history of the galaxy.>
<At least sixty-five million years in the past,> Tobias said. <Cretaceous Age. The last age of dinosaurs.>
Marco moaned. <Oh, man. Sixty-five million years! I thought it was just maybe six or seven million years. I was holding out hope that we’d find some primitive people. You know, like in that old movie Quest for Fire? Only the babe tribe, not the hairy tribe. There would be this primitive tribe and because of my superior knowledge I would become their ruler.>
<Your superior knowledge of what, Marco? Your superior knowledge of Spider-Man’s super powers?> Rachel asked scornfully. <You run into a tribe of Neanderthals, you’d end up being their pet monkey.>
Everyone laughed. Even Marco.
[MM#2 pg. 148]
- “It is an impossible situation, of course. But it has been impossible from the start. And we are not dead yet.” ~ Ax, Book #28 pg. 17
- “Visser Three’s been trying to kill us for some time, now. We’re hard to kill.” ~ Tobias, MM#3 pg. 176
- “The only way to complete this mission was to begin it. The only way to return to Earth was to leave it.” ~ Cassie, Book #34 pg. 64
- “The treacherous aliens have severed my limb! But I shall still hobble on to victory!” ~ A Helmacron, Book #42 pg. 125
- “They attack against insane odds. They defend what can’t be defended. Outnumbered, outgunned, surrounded, hopeless, they will still fight, fight, fight, till they are each and every one dead.” ~ Edriss 562, Visser pg. 103
- <Cassie, why don’t you morph to dolphin and let’s all get out of here,> Jake said, noticing my quaking. <I’m done with this day at the beach. How about you guys?>
<Your wish is my command, Prince Jake,> Marco said.
<Then I wish you’d be quiet,> Jake drawled.
<Ha-ha!> Ax said. <Ha!>
We all looked at him, amazed.
<That was, I believe, the appropriate response to human humor, correct?> he said calmly, then dove and, within seconds, had powered his sleek dolphin’s body up out of the water and high into the air.
<I quit,> Marco said, groaning. <If Ax is gonna “ha-ha” after all of Jake’s feeble jokes from now on, I swear I quit.>
But he wouldn’t and we knew it.
None of us would.
No matter how bad the odds.
Or the humor.
[Book #39 pg. 121]
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