I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself

"I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

You're just here for the ride. For the incredible, indescribable Maximum Ride. --Max's Voice

Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.