I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

"Give me liberty or give me death." A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into.

Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens

I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?