Megamorphs 4-Back to Before I get the feeling with Rachel that she's waiting.  Impatient.  Looking for something more.  Moving through life in search of a very different destiny. --Cassie "Cassie, you know I love you, but did you just get in from Uzebekistan?" "Yes.  Yes, Rachel, I just flew in from Uzebekistan." "Shape.  Color.  Cut.  Waistline.  How do you expect to get through life without an appreciation of what goes with what?" "I expect life will just be one long struggle." --Rachel, Cassie "Do you think he's okay with me being African-American and all?" "Cassie, I've known Jake all my life.  Believe me, he doesn't even know you're black.  That's how little he would care." --Cassie, Rachel "You know, you should go out with me." ..."I don't think so." "Is it because I'm roughly three feet shorter than you?..Is it that you think I'm cuter than you?" "Yeah, that would be it." ..."You know, girls love a guy with a sense of humor." "Yeah, if he's Leonardo DiCaprio.  Adam Sandler, not so much." ..."Still, we should go out.  Do a movie.  Eat some burgers.  I could make you laugh." "Actually, I think the mere memory of that suggestion will supply me with plenty of laughter." ..."You know, I could supply references, Rachel.  Plenty of females have enjoyed the company of Marco the Magnificent...So.  What do you think?" "I think many things." --Marco, Rachel My first battle.  Six Taxxons.  And I had learned one thing.  If the rest of Earth's species were anything like this Blue Blade, the Yeerks had picked the wrong planet. --Ax "Don't you want to be a part of something big and important?" "No.  I don't want to be a 'part.'  Maybe it's just me.  Maybe it's just my own mental block.  But anytime someone starts talking that stuff, I start looking for the exit door." --Tobias, Jake "No cookies?" "No cookies." "Then I must go elsewhere in search of cookies.  The cookies formed by two thin, round, black discs with a layer of adhesive white substance between them are the finest accomplishment of your species...I meant our species." "You said your species." "Evidently I am insane.  May I go now?" --Ax, psychiatrist "What do you mean, what do we do?  Why are you asking me?"  -Jake "You're the leader, man."  -Marco "What are you talking about?  The leader of what?  And why am I the leader?"  -Jake "Because you are."  -Cassie "What the crazy chick said.  Because you are."   -Marco Jake.  Decisive, once the moment for decision arrived...Rachel, bold, ready to act regardless of consequences...Marco, cautious and clever...Things weren't right.  Not right.  But more right than they'd been since we'd left the mall together. --Cassie "Oh, I see it now, I see it now.  Subtle as always, Ellmist.  Your meddling came before, didn't it?  How could we not have seen it?  Elfangor's brother?  His time-shifted son?  This anomalous girl here?  And the son of Visser One's host body?  A group of six supposedly random humans that contains those four!  You stacked the deck!"  --Drode "Ellimist, is there anything better in our real time?  Will it happen any better, there?  Will it, at least, ever end?" "It will end.  It will end." --Jake, Ellimist "But I'll say nothing about it.  Tobias can't know that he might have become a voluntary Controller.  And Jake can't know that he ever weakened enough to take the Drode's deal." "You are wise." "Yeah, and I sure don't want to know that I ever dated Marco." --Cassie, Ellimist, Rachel