Animorphs Quotes

“Be happy for me, and for all who fly free.”

“Rachel: You have dreams about King Friday?”

“I, Elfangor, was going to become a great warrior, a prince, a hero.”

“Marco: What's wrong with dreaming about King Friday?”

“"A fool is strong so that others will see. A wise person is strong for himself."”

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“Wikipedia: Animorphs”

“Rachel: Nothing, I was just going to say maybe you should see a counselor before your condition worsens.”

“<My name is Elfangor, Yeerk,> I said. <Remember the name. You'll be hearing it again. But you will never take me alive.>”

“"Is this going to work?" Loren asked anxiously.
<If it doesn't, neither of us is going to the Yosemite,> I said.
"You picked a great time to learn how to joke, Elfangor."”

“"What do I want? Nothing. But I can tell you that you have twisted and distorted time. Things are not as they should be. Battles are lost that should have been won. What should be safe is now endangered."”

“How could he imagine that anything to do with Taxxons could ever be a good cause? These Taxxon were no less cannibalistic. No less murderous. And yet, if they opposed the Yeerks, could I refuse to offer that help?”

“I have a picture of my mom next to my bed. I look at it every night before I go to bed. I can never decide what I want to see when I look at it. I don't know if I see the mother I lost, or the mother I want to rescue somehow. I don't know anymore.”

“I hated the way they all felt sorry for me. All they could see was that I was not what I used to be. All they saw was that I had no home.
But they didn't really understand. I hadn't had a real home since my parents died. I was used to being alone.
And I had the sky.”

“An Andalite may think that humans are simple, open, trusting creatures. But they are more subtle than they seem to be at first. Possibly this is because of their spoken language, where no one word ever means just one thing.
—From the Earth Diary of Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill”

“"Give me liberty or give me death." A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into.
—From the Earth Diary of Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill”

“"I figure this ship is going like, what, twenty miles per hour? Figure an hour, and that puts us twenty miles out, right?"
Rachel pointed a finger at her forehead and said, "Jake's a total mathematical genius. One hour at twenty miles per hour. Right away he figures out that's twenty miles."”

“And then it came to me, in a moment of clarity: I had no choice. When Arbron had been in utter despair and had wanted to die, I stopped him. Because without life there is no despair, but without life there can also never be hope.
I had no right to erase Loren's hope, no matter how bad I felt.”

“<Be careful what you accuse me of, Aristh Elfangor,> Alloran said harshly. <You're a child, so I forgive your impertinence. This time. But you are here to learn, not to question orders. And one of the things you'll learn, my idealistic aristh, is that war is not about striking brave poses and playing the hero. War is about killing.>”