Pittacus Lore

“—Sabía que eras especial desde el primer momento que te vi —me dice.—A mí me pasó lo mismo contigo.”

“Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings.”

“No more, no less. I'm an idiot. I really need to let this crush go.”

“Kalau kau berkonsentrasi untuk tetap waras terlalu keras, itu hanya akan membuatmu jadi tambah dekat pada kegilaan. Tetapi, kalau kau mencoba mempertahankan kewarasan tanpa berkonsentrasi, pikiranmu justru akan mengembara memikirkan hal-hal yang aneh dan gila, sehingga membuatmu nyaris stres. Triknya adalah mencoba menjaga keseimbangan di antara keduanya; membuat jarak dengan dirimu, berusaha netral.”

“A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.”

“The wind is knocked out of me; and when I look up, I see Nine spitting blood out. He's grinning. "Are you crazy?" I ask. "You're enjoying this?" "I've been locked up for over a year. This is the best day of my life!”

“I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.”

“Why couldn't you turn into a fireball when we were on the same team!”

“I've been waiting a long to to meet you”

“Kill that Garde as hard as you can!”

“Forcing an answer only guarantees that no answer will come out." - Six”

“Sometimes you can hide just as effectively by sticking out.”

“My iPod rumbles again. It's not actually an iPod. It doesn't play any music and the earbuds are just for show. It's a gadget that Sandor put together in his lab.It's my Mogadorian detector. I call it my iMog.”

“That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.”

“I am her tribute. Survival is my gift to her.”

“It was this newsletter thing called "They Walk Among Us" ... All the news that no one in their right mind would ever believe. It's all this stuff about aliens and weird happenings that might be connected to alines. Like, apparently a twelve-year-old girl was murdered in London and people think she might have been a casualty in a secret war between extraterrestrials living on Earth. Totally nuts.”

“Never underestimate human stupidity.”

“Look what I found, Eight!”Eight disappears from the grass and reappears up in the air next to the Chest. He wraps his arms around it and hugs it. Slime and all. Then he teleports back to the edge of the lake, the Chest still in his hands. “I can’t believe it,” Eight finally says. “All this time, it was right here.” He looks stunned.“It was inside a Mog ship at the bottom of the lake,” I say, walking out of the water.Eight disappears again and teleports directly in front of me, our noses practically touching. Before I can register how nice his warm breath feels on my face, he picks me up and kisses me hard on the mouth as he twirls me around. My body stiffens and I suddenly have no idea what to do with my hands. I don’t know what to do at all, so I just let it happen. He tastes salty and sweet at the same time. The whole world disappears and I feel as if I’m floating in darkness. (Rise of the Nine)”

“Nine, now eight. Are the rest of you out there?”

“No one, and nothing, will ever hurt you as long as I'm alive.”

“There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is “Don’t be stupid.”I’m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.”

“My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.”

“You can't escape what you are, but you also should know what you could be. Why you're fighting.”

“And that’s about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could.”

“I know what I'm capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.”

“I don't like bullies. No one has a right to take or to hurt just because they can.”

“A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.”

“We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.”

“My Katarina is dead.”

“I'm going to kill them all”

“I’m going to kill them all - Stanley aka Nine”

“I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.”

“It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.”

“I don't know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I'm not alone, I keep telling myself.”

“Setrakus is more or less invincible. Only Pittacus Lore, the most powerful of all the Lorien Elders, would have been able to defeat him.”

“Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?”

“I guess I had this silly notion that things would be different now, since I was different.”

“Maybe the only good thing about death is that you never have to relive it. You never have to remember the pain.”

“So I'm guessing you're Seven and Ten; What can you do?" I say as I find our rifles in the sand and hand each of them a gun."You can call me Marina," the girl with the brown hair says. "And I can breathe under water and see in the dark and heal the sick and wounded. And I have telekinesis."Call me Ella, I hear ten say in my head. Aside from my telepathy, I can change ages."Awesome. I'm four, that nut job with the long black hair is nine and the beast is my chimaera, Bernie Kosar.”

“Okay, I think it's time for another distraction" Eight says, disappearing again. He reappears by the outer circle of stones, plants his hands on an upright slab, and pushes hard. All I can do is watch in horror, frozen to the spot. The huge stone wobbles and slowly tips backwards, then the horizontal slab on top falls too, and that's when Eight starts yelling, "Help! Help! The stones are falling over! Stonehenge is falling down!" I will kill him. I clench my fists at my side, which is when I realize I still have a small rock in my hand. I lean down and carefully, pointlessly, return it to its spot.”

“It’s ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. - Stanley aka Nine”

“You will be known as the One who protected the Eight.” - Hilde to One”

“Next he grabs a round yellow thing covered in small bumps. It looks like a strange fruit and I half expect him to squeeze it to produce juice. When it reaches shoulder height the small bumps explode, turning into razor-sharp spikes. I duck and roll in BK's direction to avoid getting impaled."What the hell?" I shout. "You could have warned me! This is the second time in less than five minutes that you've almost killed me.”

“I don’t know; I still like the name Six. MarenElizabeth was when I was a different person, and right now Six just feels right. It can be short for something if someone asks.”Sam looks over. “For what? Sixty?”

“Marina, as of the sea. You stick with Hector Ricardo. I'll take care of you;its in my name”

“He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.”

“Bad day?""Every day is a bad day here.""Eh, this place isnt't so terrible.""How are you always cheerful?""Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin.”

“You guys are ridiculous," he says, retreating back to the kitchen. "Your flirting just scared the hell out of me." "Scared the hell out of me too.”

“I work my hardest and she still kicks the crap out of me.”

“Sam picks the stone up and clenches his entire body in deep concentration. Nothing happens. " Oh come on," he says to the stone. " I promise to use it for the power of good. No girls' locker rooms, I swear.”