-AnimorFic- Booklist

: Jake : Rachel : Tobias : Cassie : Marco : Ax : Other :

Jake

<Good to see you, too, Jake. How are the others?>
"Alive. Alive. I guess that's all that counts."
<Yes. That is all that matters.> Tobias, Jake #1

"Yeah. Until then, we fight." Jake #1

"I guess sometimes you have to choose between smart, sane, ruthlessness, and totally stupid, insane hope. You can't pick one and stick with it, either. Each time it comes up, you have to try and make your best decision. Most of the time, I guess I have to go with being smart and sane. But I don't want to live in a world where people don't try the stupid, crazy, hopeful thing sometimes." Jake #19

"GET! THAT! BUTTERFLY!" Jake #19

"Who are you?"
"We're the people who are going to totally change your world, David." David, Jake #20

<Everyone ready? Charge!>
<Charge? I bet he's always wanted to say that.> Jake, Marco #22

"I worry about you, Rachel. More than any of the others except Tobias. I feel like this war is to you like booze is to an alcoholic. Like I don't know what will happen to you if it all ends someday? What are you going to do? Go back to being the world's greatest shopper? Go back to gymnastics and getting good grades?" Jake #22

“Fine. I was leader of a group of resistance fighters, Earth's only hope for freedom, and I had to clean the basement to earn a lousy twenty bucks. Talk about irony.” Jake #47

“So, where did you leave the tank?”
“The tank. Well, you know Chapman's house? Nice two-story?”
“How many stories is it now?”
“Uh... Zero? But the back deck will give Chapman a nice supply of firewood this winter. It's already piled up for him.” Jake, Marco #51

“Look, if we lose this battle it's over, you understand me?! If we lose it's over. This is the battle. This is the last stand. We lose and here's what happens: The Yeerk fleet fights the Andalite fleet. If the Yeerks win they'll be free to enslave every living human being and kill the ones they don't want. If the Andalites win there's a very good chance they'll sterilize Earth: kill everything in order to end the Yeerk menace once and for all. So, you don't like me telling you what to do, you don't like your job, you don't like me, period? I don't really care. Before this night is over the casualties will be piled high and some of you standing here right now will be dead and I don't care because we are going to win. Is that clear? We're taking that Pool ship and before this night is over we'll have Visser One right here.” Jake #53

“Ram the Blade ship.” Jake #54

Rachel

"There's no one else who can do anything to stop the Yeerks. I'm scared to death, just thinking about it. But I'm there." Rachel #1

<Puny little nothing! You attack ME?!> Rachel #1

"Marco, you and Jake already have fights for dominance, and you're just ordinary guys" Rachel #3

"Sure, Marco, but that was different. You and the gorilla were already so much alike." Rachel #3

“But even I have enough sense to know the words "we have to win" are the first four steps on the road to hell.” Rachel #17

“No, we can't. See, you've just said the whole world can drop dead, so long as you, Cassie, don't have to end up turning into me." Rachel #19

<Marco? Why are you still singing when clearly I want you to shut up?> Rachel #21

<You're complaining? We're the ones sitting here while you go zipping around playing Top Gun.>
<Aww, shut up, Marco. It's kind of fun. The wind whistling through the chinks in my body armor, rustling the spikes on my legs . . .>
<You people are all crazy.> Marco, Rachel, David #21

"When do we get to shut you up? When do we get to switch you off? I mean, good grief, Marco, you act like you have something better to do. Before we became Animorphs your entire day consisted of figuring out which girl to annoy next." Rachel #23

<Rachel, I have a plan even you will think is insane. See that cop car? Going the same general direction as the cab? See the lights on top?>
<Okay, that actually is insane. Let's do it!> Tobias, Rachel #23

"Happy Birthday, Tobias." Rachel #23

<Shut up you gutless weasel.> Rachel unknown

Tobias

<Good to see you, too, Jake. How are the others?>
"Alive. Alive. I guess that's all that counts."
<Yes. That is all that matters.> Tobias, Jake #1

 Tobias #1

<There will be a next time. There will be a next time until the Andalites return.> Tobias #2

 Tobias #3

 Tobias #3

“Be happy for me, and for all who flee free.” Tobias #3

<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 #19

<Rachel, I have a plan even you will think is insane. See that cop car? Going the same general direction as the cab? See the lights on top?>
<Okay, that actually is insane. Let's do it!> Tobias, Rachel #23

 Tobias #23

<I know! I know! Don't you think I know! That's why I'm going hungry. Because I'm not hawk enough. That's why I let Bek get away, because I was human enough to care more about my pain and fear than I cared about doing what I had to do.> Tobias #23

<She's a morph. It's all a trap. She's Visser Three. The "woman" who was going to be my family? She's Visser Three! Hah, hah, hah! Now, that's funny. That is really, really funny.> Tobias #23

<Message received, Father. Message received.> Tobias #23

"Hey, the chicks go wild for feathers, bay-bee..." Tobias #29

But now I knew. Jake didn't understand any of it better than the rest of us did. If he defeated the Yeerks, freed humanity, rescued Earth, that was good. But that was just a bonus. His main goal was much simpler. To save his family. That goal was what had given him strength. That goal was what had kept him sane. Allowed him to retain a center of calm focus amid the awful chaos. Tobias #49

"Maybe I have just found something worth fighting for." Tobias unknown

Cassie

"Nothing is normal here. Can't you feel it? All these so-called full members, they're all being so perfectly nice. So perfectly helpful. They're so perfectly normal it's abnormal. And all the time their eyes are following you, watching you. Watching you like... like a hungry dog watching a bone" Cassie #1

"I'm afraid you're primitive male behavior might slow us down." Cassie #3

"Fishing is a matter of skill and luck. A smart fisherman learns not to become frustrated." Cassie #3

"I'm Falling Girl's partner, Dropping Chick." Cassie #12

"Where the psychic frogs are from?" Cassie #18

<Never. I quit. I quit this stupid war. I quit the Animorphs.> Cassie #19

"It isn't words exactly, but if it were, it would be one word; hope" Cassie MM1

Marco

"You've never even been in a fight. You can't handle the punks at school. Suddenly now you want to kick butt on that Visser Three freakazoid?" Marco #1

"Tom. Tom is one of them. Your brother is a controller." Marco #1

"Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing. Just tell them we're Animorphs…Idiot teenagers with a death wish." Marco #1

"OK, let's get serious here. How are we going to go about getting ourselves killed next? Turn into flies at a frog convention? Morph into turkeys at Thanksgiving?" Marco #2

"Meowfluffer, comeoutmeow, meow come and play meow?" Marco #2

"Hugely funny." Marco #3

"Don't mention the word 'cage' around Tobias...He'll do some guerrilla-commando-Ninja-SWAT-team-hawk-from-hell attack on the Center. And he'll talk Rachel into stomping your house flat." Marco #3

"This is ridiculous! We're four - I mean five- fairly intelligent human beings. And we can't outsmart one fish that probably has an IQ of four?" Marco #3

"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 Rogers' Neighborhood talking to King Friday. I've had weird dreams about that woman on Baywatch ... hmm, well, that does kind of involve the ocean, I guess." Marco #4

"Weird? Weird? The talking bird wants to know if getting information of an alien from a whale that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins... you're suggesting that's weird?" Marco #4

"Sticking your tongue in an electrical socket is dangerous - not to mention painful." Marco #5

“We're shopping all the sales, Enemies 'R' Us, Enemymart, J.C. Enemy. Don't worry, we'll find one.” Marco #8

“Rage is addictive, you know. I guess it’s sorta like a drug. Anger and hatred get you high. They get you high, but like any addiction, they hollow you out and tear you down and eat you alive.” Marco, #10

“See, win or loose, right or wrong, the memory of violence sits inside your head. It sits there, like a lump you can’t quite swallow. It sits there, a black hole that darkens hope, and eats away at everyday happiness like a cancer. It’s the shadow you take into your own heart and try to live with.” Marco #10

<Let's get going I have a sudden urge to step on myself.> Marco #10

"You're telling me it's more relaxing for everyone if I just act like we're all going to die?" Marco #15

"The man is a Brussels sprout." Marco #18

"Yeah. That's what's strange: the word 'yanked.' Us turning into mosquitoes to suck some guy's 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.'" Marco #18

 Marco #19

<Did you ingest me?!>
<Um . . . yes.> Ax, Marco #20

<Do not fire your Earth weapon! We come in peace!>
"We? A second ago it was 'I.' How many of you are there?"
<Um, well, Earthling, there's just one of me. But I suffer from a sort of space mental illness. Split personalities. Hey, it'd been a long, long trip from planet Xenon Five, I had to have someone to talk to!> Marco, David's dad #20

<If that gas reaches us we'll not only go to the light, we'll be saying "hello" to all our dead relatives and explaining our impure thoughts to Saint Peter!> Marco #20

<Well, I'm in a cockroach body, just fell out of the bottom of a spaceship belonging to brain-stealing alien slugs while trying to save the president of the United States, was rescued by a girl who's temporarily a bald eagle and a guy who's permanently a red-tailed hawk . . . and yet, it all seems normal somehow. Like, okay, that's just to be expected. It's finally happened, hasn't it?>
<What's finally happened?>
<I've gone insane. Deedly deeedly deedly looopy! Nutso. Insane in the membrane.> Marco, Jake #21

<Okay, there is definitely some security on this place. Guys on the roof, guys in the bushes, guys sitting in cars, guys out on the golf course pretending to be playing golf. It looks like Men in Black 2 around here. These guys all have the same suit.> Marco # 21

<You're complaining? We're the ones sitting here while you go zipping around playing Top Gun.>
<Aww, shut up, Marco. It's kind of fun. The wind whistling through the chinks in my body armor, rustling the spikes on my legs . . .>
<You people are all crazy.> Marco, Rachel, David #21

<Yes. Obviously in that one area, the technology the Chee possess is somewhat superior even to Andalite technology.>
"Way superior. Way, way superior. I mean, just so I have this straight, you're saying the Chee technology would be to Andalite technology like human technology is to . . . oh, say, chimpanzees?"
<Actually, the gap would have to be even wider, since there really isn't all that much of a difference between human technology and chimpanzee technology.> Ax, Marco #21

<Everyone ready? Charge!>
<Charge? I bet he's always wanted to say that.> Jake, Marco #22

"Just tell me this. When do we get a vacation? I mean, Ben-Hur rowing that Roman galley while the guy whipped him and the other guy banged on that big drum got more downtime than we do." Marco #23

"Toby, meet Rachel. You two can visit the psychiatrist together." Marco #23

"I doubt we've ever met, but I bet you've known someone like me. Every class has a Marco. You know, the one who is the smartest, wittiest, most charming, coolest and best-looking. That's me!" Marco #25

"I want to hop on the cafeteria table and dance on somebody's Tater Tots until the hall monitor comes to drag me away" Marco #25

"Did well? Did well? We kicked butt on the meanest gang in the galaxy, whupped Crayak the Big Nasty, saved the Iskoort, which I'm still not sure was a good thing, and planted a little sensitivity time bomb in the Howlers, and that's it? 'Job well done,' and 'Oh, by the way, here's your insides to look at again as we zip through inside-out world'?" Marco #26

"Like a lumberjack who's just chopped off one of his own legs, like a one-legged lumberjack who's remaining leg is a tree stump and -" Marco #29

"Mr. Tidwell! Some guys in the bathroom have cherry bombs. They're going to blow the lids off all the toilets! It'll be a toilet massacre!" Marco #29

"Erek, does the Yeerk pool have toilets?" Marco #29

"See? Still think my Idea is nuts? Wait a minute, it is nuts. What's the matter with me? Am I insane?" Marco #29

“So, where did you leave the tank?”
“The tank. Well, you know Chapman's house? Nice two-story?”
“How many stories is it now?”
“Uh... Zero? But the back deck will give Chapman a nice supply of firewood this winter. It's already piled up for him.” Jake, Marco #51

"You can't say that you haven't been in the classroom listening to the teacher drone on about how x = y execpt if multiplied by pi and you could just fly away, ZOOM! Bye!" Marco unknown

Aximili

"Marco? Something has happened to your hair. I believe it has become shorter. Are you suffering from some sort of illness?" Ax #10

"Why is the meal happy?" Ax #14

<Did you ingest me?!>
<Um . . . yes.> Ax, Marco #20

<Yes. Obviously in that one area, the technology the Chee possess is somewhat superior even to Andalite technology.>
"Way superior. Way, way superior. I mean, just so I have this straight, you're saying the Chee technology would be to Andalite technology like human technology is to . . . oh, say, chimpanzees?"
<Actually, the gap would have to be even wider, since there really isn't all that much of a difference between human technology and chimpanzee technology.> Ax, Marco #21

 Ax #21

 Ax #22

"I am from the republic of Ivory Coast. How about Equadorial Guinea? The Republic of Kyrgyzstan? Canada? I am from Canada. I am Canadese." Ax #24

"The men who are young and restless do not wear shirts. I am young. And I am occasionally restless." Ax #28

"I am Dee-dee-dee-ler-i-ous!" Ax Book #29

"My Bod-deee? Body, body, bawd-eee?" Ax #29

"I would like to shuffle my artificial hooves to the music with you. But you cannot have my body. My bod. Dee. My bo. Dee." Ax #29

Other

<They have come to destroy you.> Elfangor #1

"Oh. my. Lord, forget the bird! There's an elephant stomping over the convertibles!" Dealin' Dan Hawke #3

“They [dogs] are our joy because they remind us of a world without evil. The world we lost. We Chee are all that is left of the Pemalite technological genius. The dogs of Earth are all that is left of Pemalite souls.” Erek #10

"Eeenie, meenie, minie, moo" Visser3 #12

"It was those kids! I am looking for three kids named Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and Cindy Crawford." Captain Torelli Book #14

"Typical Andalite arrogance. The only race in the entire galaxy that makes war 'to help people." Aftran #19

"You want to make peace, don't you. You want to find a way to stop us without having to get your hands dirty. You want to defeat us . . . without having to kill us. It's almost sweet. It is sweet. Sweet and naive and foolish and utterly, utterly futile." Aftran #19

<Just five human children and an Andalite aristh?! The entire Yeerk invasion force is in an uproar because of five human children and an Andalite cadet?> Aftran #19

<Do not fire your Earth weapon! We come in peace!>
"We? A second ago it was 'I.' How many of you are there?"
<Um, well, Earthling, there's just one of me. But I suffer from a sort of space mental illness. Split personalities. Hey, it'd been a long, long trip from planet Xenon Five, I had to have someone to talk to!> Marco, David's dad #20

"Who are you?"
"We're the people who are going to totally change your world, David." David, Jake #20

<You're complaining? We're the ones sitting here while you go zipping around playing Top Gun.>
<Aww, shut up, Marco. It's kind of fun. The wind whistling through the chinks in my body armor, rustling the spikes on my legs . . .>
<You people are all crazy.> Marco, Rachel, David #21

<Hey. You ever wonder who'd win in a fight between a lion and a tiger?> David #21

"Pretty upset over that Bird-boy, aren't you? What, did you like him or something? That's it, isn't it? Aww, how sweet. Too bad. But you know, birds have a short life span." David #22

<You have to put up a wall between you and the fear, Rachel. You have to cut yourself off from it, tell yourself you're safe Rachel. You have to tell yourself that bad stuff only happens to people who are careless or stupid or evil, Rachel.> David #22

"Two hours, Rachel. Two hours till they are trapped forever as roaches. Let's go get that blue box." David #22

“I wanted nothing more than to live out my life, loving your mother and loving you as well. But I was part of something larger than myself. I had my duty.” Elfangor #23

“I cannot say that I love you, my son, because I do not know you. But know that I wanted to love you. Know that, at least." Elfangor #23

"Prince Elfangor-Sirinal-Shamtul was no fool. And the galaxy will not soon see his like again" Visser Three #23

"Come visit my execution parlor!" An Iskoort #26

“Strong and weak. That's the reality. Winners and losers.” Tom #31

“My help, huh? You need my help? See the stars on my shoulder there, son? I'm a major general, U.S. Army. You're a kid who can turn into a bug. I take my orders from the chain of command, and that ain't you.” General Doubleday #53

<Only a traitor could have beaten me. I was not beaten by you, human, or by your pet Andalite there. I was undone by my trusting nature. … Only another Yeerk could have beaten me, and then only by the lowest treason. I was not beaten by you. Never by you.> Visser Three #53