6
" Rachel ran over, grabbed Marco by the shoulders, and gave him a good hard shake. "Come on, you big baby, say it - free or dead!"
"Yeah, yeah, free or dead," Marco said. Then he laughed. "Rachel, you do know you're insane, right?"
"Yes, but she's a Packard Foundation Outstanding Student who's insane," Cassie chimed in.
"I'm sure the Yeerks will be impressed," Marco said. "
― , The Change (Animorphs, #13)
7
" I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win. "
― , The Beginning (Animorphs, #54)
8
" But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid?
Gotta go with stupid.
It’s not the easy way out. Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that’s tough. "
― , The Proposal (Animorphs, #35)
19
" We have to take that weapon and blow it up. Quiet and fast. We want to be in there before anyone has a chance to react.”
There was a moment of expectant silence. Then Marco said, “Rachel! What's keeping you?”
“Oh, I forgot,” she said. And then, in true Rachel style, she yelled, “Let's do it!”
“Thank you,” Marco said. “We can't run off on another idiot suicide mission without the blessings of the always insane Xena, Warrior Princess. "
― , The Pretender (Animorphs, #23)