Little Brother Marcus Yallow Quotes

Marcus Yallow

Quote 10

Booger sighed a put­upon sigh. "Look, Marcus, we're on your side here. We use this system to catch bad guys. To catch terrorists and drug dealers. Maybe you're a drug dealer yourself. Pretty good way to get around the city, a Fast Pass. Anonymous."

"What's wrong with anonymous? It was good enough for Thomas Jefferson. And by the way, am I under arrest?"

"Let's take him home," Zit said. "We can talk to his parents."

"I think that's a great idea," I said. "I'm sure my parents will be anxious to hear how their tax dollars are being spent ­­"

I'd pushed it too far. (7.26-30)

Sometimes being clever with the police just gets you into more trouble. This seems to be one of Marcus's special talents. What other scenes can you find to illustrate this idea in the text? Or is this just a rare exception?

Marcus Yallow

Quote 11

"Seriously. We can do this. We can mess up the profiles easily. Getting people pulled over is easy."

She sat up and pushed her hair off her face and looked at me. I felt a little flip in my stomach, thinking that she was really impressed with me.

"It's the arphid cloners," I said. "They're totally easy to make. Just flash the firmware on a ten­dollar Radio Shack reader/writer and you're done. What we do is go around and randomly swap the tags on people, overwriting their Fast Passes and FasTraks with other people's codes. That'll make everyone skew all weird and screwy, and make everyone look guilty. Then: total gridlock."

Van pursed her lips and lowered her shades and I realized she was so angry she couldn't speak. (8.34-37)

Marcus can figure out smart ways to use technology, but will he ever be clever enough to figure out the girls in his life? Stay tuned.

Marcus Yallow

Quote 12

[Marcus:] "I'm going to do a video about this. Get it out over the weekend. Mondays are big days for viral video. Everyone'll be coming back from the holiday weekend, looking for something funny to forward around school or the office." (Epilogue.18)

Now free, Marcus makes videos as a way of dealing with things that make him upset. What other things has he done because he was upset throughout the text?