It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.

Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.

Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.

I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

"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.