History Quotes / Animorphs

'''Rachel''': You're probably right. Even if we were warned, we wouldn't last long. But some of us would last a while, you little [[PrecisionFStrike bastard]][[note]]She says 'bastard' in some editions, 'creep' in others.[[/note]]. Long enough to make sure your parents... Well, just use your imagination.\\

-->'''Blurb''' found on the back of a majority of the ''Animorphs'' books, prior to '''''#51: The Absolute'''''.

-->'''Blurb''' found on the backs of books '''''#51: The Absolute''''' through '''''#54: The Beginning'''''.

-->'''Marco''', '''''#1 The Invasion'''''

-->'''Marco'''

-->'''''#5 The Predator'''''

-->'''''#8 The Alien'''''

-->'''Ax, ''#5 The Predator'''''

-->'''''#14, The Unknown'''''

-->'''Aftran''', '''''#19 The Departure'''''

-->'''Toby Hamee'''

-->'''''#19, The Departure'''''

-->'''''#22 The Solution'''''

--> '''Marco''', [[RunningGag repeatedly]]

-->The ending of [[RunningGag almost any exchange]] between Jake and Ax.

-->'''Jake'''

--> '''Marco, #30 The Reunion'''

-->'''Tobias, ''#33 The Illusion'''''

-->'''Jake, ''#36 The Mutation'''''

-->'''''#41 The Familiar'''''

-->'''David'''

-->'''''#41 The Familiar'''''

-->'''''#48 The Return'''''

-->'''''#53 The Answer'''''

-->'''Rachel, ''repeated line'''''

-->'''''The Ellimist Chronicles'''''

-->'''Marco''', '''''#53 The Answer'''''

-->'''Marco'''

-->'''Rachel, ''#37 The Weakness'''''

-->'''Jake, ''#53 The Answer'''''

-->'''Jake, ''#53 The Answer'''''

--> '''Rachel, ''#54 The Beginning'''''

--> '''Marco, succinctly summing up the entire series.'''

'''Ax's father''': I am relieved to see you are still well.''

--> '''Marco, succinctly summing up the entire series.'''

->'''''Ax''': It's me. It's Aximili. I'm on Earth. I don't know how long I can talk. Not long.\\

->'''''David''': You got something to say to me? You looking for a fight?\\

->'''''Jake''': If this is the future, I want to go back.\\

->'''''Rachel''': You're wrong! I could have taken them all down.\\

'''Jake''': I said ''relax''!''

->'''''Tobias''': The others may not say everything Marco says, but basically, they feel the same way he does. They really don't want to be a part of this. On the other hand, nobody really knows where you're coming from and...never mind.\\

->'''''Gen. Doubleday''': All right, Mr. Alien, what have you got to say to me?\\

->'''''The Ellimist''': I see. Afraid to play a game you might lose. A coward after all.\\

'''Rachel''': You're probably right. Even if we were warned, we wouldn't last long. But some of us would last a while, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar you little]] [[PrecisionFStrike bastard]][[note]]She says 'bastard' in some editions, 'creep' in others.[[/note]]. Long enough to make sure your parents... Well, just use your imagination.\\

'''Rachel''': Oh, what, but as long as we follow Marco's righteous program, everything's fine? Mighty Marco can -\\

---> '''Marco''', [[RunningGag repeatedly]]

--> '''Rachel, ''#54 The Beginning'''''

'''Marco''': Yeah, it's a real miracle of human technology.\\

--->'''''#22 The Solution'''''

->"You ask me to become this worm again. You ask a lot of me, Cassie the Animorph. You say we can make peace between us, just you and me and Karen. You say we can make a start. And then you ask me to give up everything, while you go on about your life, living amidst splendor and magnificence."\\

"So I ask you, Cassie," Karen said in a silky voice. "What will you give up, if I give up everything?"

'''Jake''': I said ''relax''!\\

->'''Tobias''': The others may not say everything Marco says, but basically, they feel the same way he does. They really don't want to be a part of this. On the other hand, nobody really knows where you're coming from and...never mind.\\

'''Gen. Doubleday''': My help? ''You'' want ''my'' help? I'm an Army general, son. Four star. You're a kid who can turn into a bug. I take my orders from a chain of command, and that ain't you.\\

->''Only a fool is strong so others will see. The wise are strong for themselves.''

"So I ask you, Cassie," Karen said in a silky voice. "What will you give up, if I give up everything?"''

'''''Marco''': Ax, you have to drink where the hole is in the lid.\\

'''Ax''': I have wanted to try other mouth uses. Drinking. Eating... Eeeaaating. Ting.\\
'''Marco''': You just line up the little hole with your mouth. We have to find Jake. We already lost, like, ten minutes because of you.''

->''What choice do we have? Back to the Yeerk pools? Back to our home planet, with Andalite Dome ships in orbit above us, waiting for one of us to rise from the sludge, then blow us apart? Leave the universe to the almighty Andalites and the species they happen to like?''
-->'''Aftran''', '''''#19 The Departure'''''

->''Ax pushed past me, began punching at active screens and arrays of controls.\\
<There is a flush sequence,> he said. <I have to override the safety protocols.> He turned his stalk eyes to me even as his main eyes guided swift, nimble fingers. <It can be done.>\\
<Okay,> I said.\\
<The pool is full to capacity. These are the Yeerks that were rescued from the Earth-based Yeerk pool, plus the bulk of the unhosted Yeerks recently transported here.>\\
<Some reason you're telling me all this, Ax-Man?>\\
<Prince Jake, there are seventeen thousand, three hundred seventy-two Yeerks in this pool.>\\
That rocked me.\\
Visser One had to know we were here, on the loose. He had to run for the bridge and not stay to win the fight in engineering.\\
Seventeen thousand.\\
Living creatures. Thinking creatures. How could I give this order? Even for victory. Even to save Rachel. How could I give this kind of order?\\
They could have stayed home, I thought. No one asked them to come to Earth. Not my fault. Not my fault, theirs.\\
No more than they deserved.\\
Aliens. Parasites.\\
Subhuman.\\
<Flush 'em,> I said.''

->''The Pool ship's main pool went through its standard cleaning cycle, draining the gray, sludgy water out into the vacuum of space. The water, and the parasite creatures within it, froze instantly. The pool became an ice cloud falling away from the slow-moving Pool ship.\\
How many had Ax said? Seventeen thousand and ... how many? How many Yeerks had felt the sudden stab of terror as they realized what was happening?\\
Frozen now. Crystals. An orbiting graveyard.\\
<Let's go,> I said.\\
We ran from that place, ran from thoughts of what we'd done. Ran for the bridge. His fault, it was all his fault, it was all Visser One's fault, all of it. Who started this war? Not us. Not us. We hadn't asked for it. It was him. Him and his whole filthy, subhuman, parasitic race.\\
His fault. Not mine. Not mine.''
-->'''Jake, ''#53 The Answer'''''

->''A leader who shows weakness invites disaster.''
-->'''Jake, ''#53 The Answer'''''

''(Ax, in human morph, peeks out from behind a corner)''\\
'''Ax''': Prince Jake, I still have not heard from Tobias.\\
'''Jake''': Ask again. See if we're clear from the -\\
''(Jake sees Tobias flying away)''\\
'''Marco''': Oh. Oh, that's great. That's really great! What a guy. So, he's, what, he's off the clock now? I'm going home.''

->'''''Tobias''': What's going on?\\
'''Rachel''': What's going on is that I'm sick of everybody acting like I'm some kind of warmonger when all I am is ready and willing to do my duty. Marco whines and slacks every chance he gets. So how come I'm the one that gets the bug-eyed look from everyone and Marco isn't?\\
'''Tobias''': That's not really fair. Marco carries his weight and you know it.\\
'''Rachel''': Okay, so he's not a slacker. But he ''does'' complain a lot. I'm sick to death of that "Why me? Why us?" stuff all the time. How come everyone lets him get away with it?\\
'''Tobias''': I think it's because Marco is just saying what everyone else is thinking but would never actually say.\\
'''Rachel''': Right. So how come everybody doesn't tell him to can the complaints and just get on with the job? How come I'm the bad guy?\\
'''Tobias''': The others may not say everything Marco says, but basically, they feel the same way he does. They really don't want to be a part of this. On the other hand, nobody really knows where you're coming from and...never mind.\\

->''Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade Ship.''
--> '''Jake'''

->''Well? Scared? You should be.''
--> '''Rachel, ''#54 The Beginning'''''

'''Jake''': Your chain of command is almost certainly infiltrated by Yeerks. So is this base. Probably even this room. You don't know if the orders you get are legitimate or not, and you don't know if the orders you give are going to be obeyed. Your power only extends as far as the first Controller in your staff.\\
'''Gen. Doubleday''': Get the hell out of my headquarters.''

->''My people have a saying - grace is the acceptance of the inevitable.''
-->'''Ax, ''#5 The Predator'''''

->''"What are you planning on doing?" I asked. I looked up and realized that Karen's green eyes were filled with tears. Karen's tears. But they only flowed because Aftran, the Yeerk, was crying.\\
"You tell me what you think I should do," Karen said harshly, despite the tears. "Andalites, humans, there's no difference: You're both smug, moralizing, superior races. You both live in beautiful worlds. You have hands and eyes and the freedom to move about wherever you like. And you hate us for wanting all those same things."\\
"We can't help what we are, anymore than you can. We're born with eyes and hands and legs. You're born as ... as what you are."\\
"Slugs!" Karen cried. "That's what you call us, isn't it? Slugs! Like some wet, slimy thing crawling across the sidewalk after it rains. Something you step on and say 'Eewww, gross!'"\\
"You're a Yeerk. I can't change that. You can't change it, either. All you can do is make other creatures into slaves so you can be more free. How can you justify making Karen a slave so you can be free? It's wrong. I don't care if you're human or Andalite or Yeerk, it's wrong." Karen looked at me and nodded. "Yes. I know." She shrugged her shoulders and looked down at the ground. She bent down and raised a leaf so I could see it. Hanging from the bottom of the leaf was a caterpillar. It was maybe an inch and a half long. It hung from the bottom of the leaf and was busy writhing out of its old skin. The old skin was gathered around the caterpillar like a sock that has fallen down your leg.\\
"This is what I am," Karen said. "A slug. A worm. What this little creature experiences is what I would experience if I didn't have a host body."\\
"I ... I'm sorry," I said. It was all I could think of to say.\\
"You ask me to become this worm again. You ask a lot of me, Cassie the Animorph. You say we can make peace between us, just you and me and Karen. You say we can make a start. And then you ask me to give up everything, while you go on about your life, living amidst splendor and magnificence."\\
All I could do was to shake my head. I didn't even know what it meant. Was I denying what she said? No. It was the truth.\\
"So I ask you, Cassie," Karen said in a silky voice. "What will you give up, if I give up everything?"''
-->'''''#19, The Departure'''''

->''<Fools! Idiots! Incompetents!> the Visser screamed in enraged thoughtspeak. <Weeks have been wasted setting up this effort. First we lose that clumsy fool, Korin Five-Four-Seven, when he was bitten by a snake. And now we’ve lost poor Jillay Nine-Two-Six!>
The visser indicated the no-longer-in-one-piece horse-Controller, like it had been someone else’s fault he’d been lost.''
-->'''''#14, The Unknown'''''

-->'''''#19, The Departure'''''

'''Ax's father''': Is your brother present?\\

-->'''Toby'''

'''Rachel''': You're probably right. Even if we were warned, we wouldn't last long. But some of us would last a while, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar you little]] [[PrecisionFStrike bastard]][[hottip:*:She says 'bastard' in some editions, 'creep' in others.]]. Long enough to make sure your parents... Well, just use your imagination.\\

'''Rachel''': You're probably right. Even if we were warned, we wouldn't last long. But some of us would last a while, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar you little]] [[PrecisionFStrike bastard]]. Long enough to make sure your parents... Well, just use your imagination.\\