Animorphs - Greatest Hits

[Morilore]

10. Rachel's death

Ah hell yeah

"Answer this, Ellimist: Did I . . . did I make a
difference? My life, and my . . . my death . . .
was I worth it? Did my life really matter?"
"Yes," he said. "You were brave. You were
strong. You were good. You mattered."
"Yeah. Okay, then. Okay, then."

That book had problems, but Rachel's death scene was not one of them.  (I actually don't mind the ending, except that there are two of them, and both are in the middle of the book.)

Also, from 19:

"You tell me what you think I should do," Karen said harshly, despite
the tears. "Andalites, humans, there's no difference: You're both smug,
moralizing, superior races. You both live in beautiful worlds. You have
hands and eyes and the freedom to move about wherever you like. And you
hate us for wanting all those same things."
 
"We can't help what we are, anymore than you can. We're born with eyes
and hands and legs. You're born as ... as what you are."
 
"Slugs!" Karen cried. "That's what you call us, isn't it? Slugs! Like
some wet, slimy thing crawling across the sidewalk after it rains.
Something you step on and say 'Eewww, gross!'"
 
"You're a Yeerk. I can't change that. You can't change it, either. All
you can do is make other creatures into slaves so you can be more free.
How can you justify making Karen a slave so you can be free? It's wrong.
I don't care if you're human or Andalite or Yeerk, it's wrong."
 
Karen looked at me and nodded. "Yes. I know."

"Yes. I know."  BAM.

[Unknown User]

One of my favorite Animorphs moments was in TEC when Toomin beat Father for the first time. Also, the fact that the readers got to learn some of the back story of the mighty Andalites was, IMHO, pretty freakin cool.