History Quotes / Animorphs

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

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

->"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.\\

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

"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'''''

->"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!'"

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?"

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

'''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 bastard. 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'''''.

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

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 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.\\

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

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

They could have stayed home, I thought. No one had asked them to come to Earth. Not my fault. Not my fault, theirs.\\

<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.\\

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 Visser One's fault, all of it. Who had started this war? Not us. Not us. We didn't ask for it.\\

His fault. Not mine. Not mine.''\\

''They could have stayed home'', I thought. ''No one asked them to come to Earth. Not my fault. Not my fault, theirs.''\\

'''Rachel''': You want a war between you and us, that's fine, we'll play that out. But if you try to sell us out to the Yeerks, your little family will never get put back together again. ''Never!'' ''

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

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

->''Here's the deal these days: they know exactly who we are. They know exactly where we live. We've got a few secrets left, and we're gonna use them. But just know that the end is coming. And we don't know how much longer we can do this. How much longer we can fight.

->What about you? Where will you be where it ends? Think about it. Think hard. Because the countdown has already begun....''

-->''Here's the deal these days: they know exactly who we are. They know exactly where we live. We've got a few secrets left, and we're gonna use them. But just know that the end is coming. And we don't know how much longer we can do this. How much longer we can fight.

What about you? Where will you be where it ends? Think about it. Think hard. Because the countdown has already begun....''

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

->'''''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.\\
'''Rachel''': You said you could handle it.\\
'''Tobias''': Okay. I don't think anyone really understands where you're coming from, Rachel. You're too into it and, for a while, we were all right with that. But now it's kind of starting to freak everybody out.''
-->'''''#48 The Return'''''

->''A phone call at three a.m. is rarely a good thing. When you're an Animorph, chance of good news ever - day or night - is zero.''
-->'''Jake, ''#36 The Mutation'''''

->''It felt good to hear Jake say I was indispensable, but with Jake you could never be sure what was sincere, and what was just expedient. He'd been the most open of guys back in the old days. What you saw with Jake was what you got. But he'd been the leader for a long time now, he'd learned to say what he needed to say.\\
Jake needed me as one of the Animorphs. He liked me, respected me, was happy for me when I was happy. And when he had to he used me without any regard for anything except winning.''
-->'''Tobias, ''#33 The Illusion'''''

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

->'''''Ax''': It's me. It's Aximili. I'm on Earth. I don't know how long I can talk. Not long.\\
'''Ax's father''': Is your brother present?\\
'''Ax''': Father... Elfangor is... He was killed.\\
'''Ax's father'''(shaken): Did he die well?\\
'''Ax''': He died in the service of his people, defending freedom.\\
'''Ax's father''': And has his death been avenged?\\
'''Ax''': No.\\
'''Ax's father''': You are now the eldest child. The burden of revenge is upon you. Do you know his killer?\\
'''Ax''': Yes.\\
'''Ax's father''': And does his killer still live?\\
'''Ax''': Yes.\\
'''Ax's father''': And do you, Aximili, take up the burden of avenging your brother's death?\\
'''Ax''': Yes.\\
'''Ax's father''': I am relieved to see you are still well.''
-->'''''#8 The Alien'''''

->'''''David''': You got something to say to me? You looking for a fight?\\
'''Rachel''': Maybe.\\
'''David''': You wouldn't morph. Not here. Not in front of all these people.\\
'''Rachel''': I don't need a morph to handle you.\\
'''David''': Maybe you forget this sometimes, but you are just a girl, Rachel.\\
'''Rachel''': And you're just a worm. Wanna see who wins that fight?\\
'''David''': Aw, you're upset over Bird-Boy. Did you like him or something? That's sweet. But you know, birds have short lifespans.\\
'''Rachel''': So do worms.\\
'''David''': What are you trying to do? Scare me?\\
'''Rachel''': Nah. Wouldn't want to scare you. I just wanted to tell you something. You try to sell us out to Visser Three, we'll know. We have sources inside the Yeerk organisation.\\
'''David''': Yeah, right.\\
'''Rachel''': How do you think we knew where the Summit Meeting was? How do you think we knew one of the heads of state was a Controller? You try to sell us out, we'll know.\\
'''David''': Doesn't matter. Nothing you'd be able to do about it anyway.\\
'''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 bastard. Long enough to make sure your parents... Well, just use your imagination.\\
(David swings at Rachel with his fist. Rachel catches his hand and jams a fork to the side of David's head)\\
'''Rachel''': You want a war between you and us, that's fine, we'll play that out. But if you try to sell us out to the Yeerks, your little family will never get put back together again. ''Never!'' ''
--->'''''#22 The Solution'''''

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

-->'''Aftran'''

'''Ax's father''': You are now the eldest child. The burden of revenge is upon you. Do you know his killer?

'''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 doesn't?\\