Scavengers Quotes

“daydreaming.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“felt the same way!”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“girlfriend”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“you don’t date your best friend’s ex-girlfriend”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“pool?”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“droppin’ the kids off at the pool?”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“Never speak about my crush on you,”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“The storm is not coming! It is already here!”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“a sentence.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“My world turned to white as I made contact with the queen, smashing into her. A flash of intense pain flooded my body, but then it was gone… Everything… was gone. The human race was safe from enslavement by the queen of Scrag. I had done my duty as a ninja… as the defender of mankind, and the hero of— “…cheeseburger.” a girl’s voice said. I shook my head, embarrassed. The voice had come from my cousin, Zoe, who was seated on the bench next to me. The rest of my friends were hovering around”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“crushed apple on the floor, I said, “No, are you serious? You just killed my apple, dude! You think those things just grow on trees?” Jake started to argue, but his face froze. I could almost see his brain crashing. “Uh… yeah?” I threw my arms up. “Oh right, like there’s some kind of magical tree out there that just grows apples on its branches! Some sort of mystical all-powerful tree that some wizard created just to show his big brother that he was all grown up now, right?”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“It might sound lame-o to you, but it sounded like the perfect weekend for me.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“They were like fried grenades sailing across a battlefield of frustrated ADHD-diagnosed sixth graders. I was just thankful that nobody had good aim.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“Holy wow. Who on Earth had the guts to play a commercial like that in front of the entire school? Who would even sink to the level of making a smear campaign video?”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“For the rest of homeroom, I sat quietly trying to figure out what my next move against the Scavengers was going to be. If I let it go on for too much longer, I was going to lose Zoe as a friend, and her friendship meant more to me than anything.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“I was simply standing in a room full of kids wearing the same dumb vulture masks.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“I got away… but not before Jake got painted up as a circus clown for the whole school to scoff at.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“Plus they got their name before the school changed mascots from the Wildcats to the Moose.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“Naomi was a valued member of my ninja clan, but she had also turned out to be a great friend.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“undiscovered”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“I passed Brayden in the hallway, but he didn’t even acknowledge my existence. His eyes looked right through me like I was the Invisible Woman. Wait… why didn’t I say the Invisible Man?”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“Pointing at my crushed apple on the floor, I said, “No, are you serious? You just killed my apple, dude! You think those things just grow on trees?”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“she doesn’t have a vengeful bone in her body, unless there’s some kind of mysterious bone actually called “vengeful.” I don’t think there is, but don’t take my word for it. I ain’t a doctor.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“I looked over at Naomi, but she wasn’t on the bench anymore.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“friendship,”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“Atta girl,”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“Scavengers”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“place for so long. “Make it something about leadership,” Zoe snipped. “Fine,” I said, rubbing my arm. “I guess if I looked”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“Jake got painted up as a circus clown”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers

“was there, man. I saw that ninja with my own two eyes.”
― Marcus Emerson, Scavengers