Quote Listing
Here we have my little collection of intriguing, funny, philosophical, and generally neat quotes taken from the Animorphs books. Please feel free to send your own picks!
Weird? Weird?! The talking bird wants to know if getting information on an alien from a
whale who we just saved from sharks, by turning into dolphins- you're suggesting that's
weird?!
-Marco
"That's fine," Loren's mother said. "Her room
is upstairs, first door to the right. Only leave the door open a crack. That's the rule in
this house when we have Andalites over to play."
-The Andalite Chronicles
Tobias :<You're very quiet. For a big old four-legged, two-handed,four-eyed, scorpion-tailed alien.>
Ax: <One of these nights I may show you.>
<Hah. Right. And eagles may fly out of my butt.>
<Is that possible?> he asked sounding alarmed.
<No. See, that's why it's funny.>
<I understand,> he said, clearly not understanding at all.
Submitted by: SDK12
...One day I'm a lobster. Then I'm an ant. I figure the next step down the evolutionary ladder is a virus or something. And I just want to say right now, I'm not doing it. I am not going to become phlegm, even to save the world.
-Marco
Animorphs #5: The Predator
. . . 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
Animorphs #17: The Underground
Where sky meets sea, Andalite, human, and Leeran are joined as allies. Each with our weaknesses. Each with our strengths.
-Leeran
Animorphs #18: The Decision
"Don't way the world 'cage' around Tobias." Marco
said. "He'll do some guerilla-commando-Ninja-SWAT-team-hawk-from-hell attack on your
Center. And he'll talk Rachel into stomping your house flat.
-Tobias
Animorphs #3: The Encounter
I flipped through pictures of humans doing things I could not understand . . . Two humans were smiling and sticking tiny white cylinders into their mouths. There was human writing beneath the picture. I don't read human very well. But I was sure it was a poem to the beauty revealed in the picture.
-Elfangor
The Andalite Chronicles
... She handed me a bag. In the bag were items of clothing. It took several minutes for me to dress successfully. There is a lot to remember, and every bit of clothing can only go on one way. Socks go on the feet and not on the hands, for example...
-Aximilli
Animorphs #8: The Alien
"Hi. I wanted to know if you, you know, want to
dance?" Allison said.
Ax nodded. "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."
Allison backed away. "Ah. Oh. You know what? I hear my friend calling me," she
said. Then bolted.
Animorphs #29: The Sickness
"You don't like black people, Mr. Davis?" I said pleasantly. "No problem. I can turn white. Watch me." . . . White fur began to grow from my face. Actually, it was clear fur, hollow needles of fur that were designed to keep the polar bear warm. But the fur looked white, taken altogether.
-Cassie
<Megamorphs #3>: Elfangor's Secret
Let me make one final point here: human mouth-sound language
is very fuzzy at times.
"Have one," she'd said.
One mouthful? One bun?
One tray?
It was certainly not my fault if there was any confusion.
-Aximilli
Animorphs #18: The Decision.
"Hey, I can't be controlled by 'the man's' arbitrary schedules. I come and go as I
please. I am free. No one holds me down."
<Teacher conference?> Tobias said.
"Yeah, they let us out early"
-Marco
Animorphs #28: The Experiment
Yeah. That's what's strange: the word "yanked." Us turning into misquotes to suck some guy's blood so we could morph 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
Animorphs #18: The Decision
"'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er --' "
I wiped tears from my eyes. "John. I'm so sorry. But . . . John, do you know, did your parents ever tell you . . . How they met? When and where?"
I saw puzzlement. Confusion. Shock. And finally sad acceptance.
"San Francisco. 1967. My dad's name was John, too. My mom is Theresa. She was Theresa Knowlton."
-William Shakespeare, Cassie, and John Barryman
<Megamorphs #3>: Elfangor's Secret
"Hey, you get the medals, I get the dagger, right?"
he said. "It's perfect. You can sit around thinking about honor and bravery and all,
and I can get the weapon that gets the job done. Sounds fair to me."
. . .
"I'm not taking anything until I talk to Mom and Grandma," . . .
"Mom and Grandma," he mocked. "You're still such a kid. You think
everything is so simple, don't you? That it's all either right or wrong, black or white. A
good guy, a bad guy and nothing in between.
. . .
"The knife, Tom," I said.
He laid it back in the footlocker.
He turned out the light. We crawled into our respective bunks. Our separate
foxholes.
-Tom and Jake
Animorphs #31: The Conspiracy
My hirac delest is done. I go in peace to my death. And I leave as my last legacy a single word for all the free peoples of the galaxy.
<Hope . . .>
-Elfangor-Sirinal-Shamtul
The Andalite Chronicles