Animorphs Quote of the Day

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Birthday Aniquotes

Time for a new post about the birthday quote initiative! I decided to make things easier for everyone (including myself) and create a form for birthday requests.

So, if you would like a quote picked for you to be posted on your birthday, just fill out the form linked below, and you'll be added to the list! Also, I've had at least one person request a quote for a friend's birthday, and I thought that was nice, so if you want to do that as well, go for it!

I can’t promise specific quotes because I want to avoid a lot of repeats, but give me a few requests (characters, books, themes, ships, etc.) and I’ll match at least one of them, more if I can.

I will tag you in the post and wish you a happy birthday, but if you’d rather I didn’t, there's a place in the form to say so.

There are no deadlines - you can send me a request any time, but don’t wait until the day of or day before your birthday or I might not see it in time.

There’s also no limit: if you already sent a request this past year, and you want to do it again for your next birthday, that is totally fine!

I’ll pin this post, and reblog it periodically as a reminder.

Birthday Aniquotes Request Form

Request an Animorphs quote for your birthday (or a friend's!) to be posted as the quote of the day on aniquotes.tumblr.com.

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“Ha. Haha and also ha.”

- Marco, Megamorphs #2: In the Time of Dinosaurs, pg. 161 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“'Can we shoot?’ Jake asked Menderash, making no attempt to conceal his words from the alien.

‘His Dracon cannon have longer range and greater power,’ Menderash reported grimly. 'And his defensive fields have been enhanced. I doubt our cannon can penetrate them.’

'Thought so,’ Jake said, still weirdly calm. 'But we’re faster.’

'Yes.’

'Okay.’ Jake took a deep breath. He looked around the bridge at each of us. At Tobias. At me. 'What was it, Marco? “Crazy, reckless, ruthless decisions”?’

I nodded, wishing I had kept my mouth shut.

There was a dangerous smile on Jake’s face.

Rachel’s smile.

'Full emergency power to the engines,’ Jake said. 'Ram the Blade ship.'”

- Book #54: The Beginning (Marco), pg. 155 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“What is the matter with people that they don’t know all that really counts is that people who love each other be able to be together, live in peace, learn, work, tell boring stories and dumb jokes? What do they think they’re going to get that is better than that?”

- Jake, Book #16: The Warning, pg. 79 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“We emerged several floors above the one where we’d first appeared. It was just what I needed: narrow walkways between tall residential buildings with shops on the ground level. Iskoort crammed everywhere. Iskoort mostly of a new type: Shopper Iskoort.

‘My people!’ Rachel cried in delight. 'At last I have a true homeland!’

'They shop?’ I asked Guide. 'That’s it? They shop?’

<Someone must buy what is created in the great factories and small craftworks,> Guide said.

'Exactly,’ Rachel agreed.

<The economy cannot function without people to buy things.>

'Guide, you are finally making sense,’ Rachel said with great satisfaction.”

- Book #26: The Attack (Jake), pg. 123 (by K.A. Applegate)

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Happy birthday, @live-long-and-pasta!

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“Someday, if we won, if humanity survived, we’d be in the history books. Me and Jake and Rachel and Cassie and Tobias and Ax. They’d be household names, like generals from World War II or the Civil War. Patton and Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee.

Kids would study us in school. Bored, probably.

And then the teacher would tell the story of Marco. I’d be a part of history. What I was about to do.

Some kid would laugh. Some kid would say, ‘Cold, man. That was really cold.’

I had to do it, kid. It was a war. It’s the whole point, you stupid, smug, smirking little jerk! Don’t you get it?

It was the whole point. We hurt the innocent in order to stop the evil.”

- Marco, Book #30: The Reunion, pg. 85 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“They are my people now - the only people I have here, so far from home. I am grateful for their friendship. I respect them, too, which might be more important. But Tobias is the only one I might consider a true shorm.

A shorm is a deep friend, someone who knows everything there is to know about you. The word comes from the Andalite’s tail blade, which looks something like what you may know as a scorpion’s tail. A shorm is someone you would trust to put his tail blade against your throat.”

- Ax, Book #28: The Experiment, pg. 2 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“Marco, Marco, Marco. You do like to cling to your pathetic little dreams, don’t you?”

- Rachel, Book #17: The Underground, pg. 10 (by K.A. Applegate)

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Birthday Aniquotes

Time for a new post about the birthday quote initiative! I decided to make things easier for everyone (including myself) and create a form for birthday requests.

So, if you would like a quote picked for you to be posted on your birthday, just fill out the form linked below, and you'll be added to the list! Also, I've had at least one person request a quote for a friend's birthday, and I thought that was nice, so if you want to do that as well, go for it!

I can’t promise specific quotes because I want to avoid a lot of repeats, but give me a few requests (characters, books, themes, ships, etc.) and I’ll match at least one of them, more if I can.

I will tag you in the post and wish you a happy birthday, but if you’d rather I didn’t, there's a place in the form to say so.

There are no deadlines - you can send me a request any time, but don’t wait until the day of or day before your birthday or I might not see it in time.

There’s also no limit: if you already sent a request this past year, and you want to do it again for your next birthday, that is totally fine!

I’ll pin this post, and reblog it periodically as a reminder.

Birthday Aniquotes Request Form

Request an Animorphs quote for your birthday (or a friend's!) to be posted as the quote of the day on aniquotes.tumblr.com.

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“Just tell me this. When do we get a vacation? I mean, Ben-Hur rowing that Roman galley while the guy whipped him and the other guy banged on that big drum got more downtime than we do.”

- Marco, Book #23: The Pretender, pg. 46 (by K.A. Applegate)

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

- Tobias, Book #3: The Encounter, pg. 154 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“I suppose I had always known that Cassie was right. Always known but had been reluctant to admit that Aftran had not been the sole member of a Yeerk resistance movement. That there were many Yeerks who, given a choice, would choose not to conquer. Would choose not to kill. If they ever were lucky enough to be given such a choice.”

- Ax, Book #52: The Sacrifice, pg. 148 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“Things happen fast. You just have to make the best decision you can and then go for it.”

- Rachel, Book #43: The Test, pg. 134 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“<Marco is not here.>

<Okay, I guess it has to be you, Ax,> Jake said.

‘No!’ I yelled in frustration at a skanky alley cat.

<I am quite capable of this simple maneuver,> Ax said snippily. <Marco was merely concerned that I would go postal. But I have no mail.>

<Is anyone else getting that sinking feeling?> Tobias muttered.”

- Book #35: The Proposal (Marco), pg. 101 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“Moleman. You can’t even picture a superhero named Moleman. What would the superpowers be? Digging?”

- Marco, Book #17: The Underground, pg. 77 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“'Ah, the glamorous life of a soldier,’ Marco said, keeping an eye on the door.

<Not so much worse than the lives of some of the crew on board this carrier,> Tobias said. <Guys who work flight deck get hazardous duty pay on top of their regular sea pay.>

<You see, that’s what I’m saying,> Marco pressed. <What do we get for risking our butts? Nothing. Nada.>

<What about the satisfaction of knowing you’re protecting the freedom of all human beings?> Cassie asked.

<Huh. Well, there is that.>”

- Book #46: The Deception (Ax), pg. 54 (by K.A. Applegate)

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"<Marco, why are you screaming? It hurts my head.>

<We're gonna die, you alien lunatic!>"

- Megamorphs #1: The Andalite's Gift (Marco), pg. 196 (by K.A. Applegate)