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

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?"

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt?