Katherine Applegate Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Katherine Applegate
Jake? Do me a favor. Don't ever say 'so far, so good'. The only time anyone ever says 'so far, so good' is right before everything blows up in his face!-Marco — Katherine Applegate
And right then I knew, the way you know that it's going to rain long before the first drop splatters on your nose, that something was about to change. — Katherine Applegate
I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too. — Katherine Applegate
Don't be so sure,' Cassie said. 'We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves.'
'Good grief,' Marco said. 'Let's all buy Birkenstocks and go hug some trees. — Katherine Applegate
Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled, hearts mended - you perform the best kind of magic ... every time you give just the right book to just the right child, you're saying, "You, my friend, have potential." That is a gift. That is a miracle. And that is what you do, each of you, every single day. — Katherine Applegate
For Marquez, the transition from standing around to dancing was instantaneous and total. It wasn't about looking cool, it was about losing all contact with the normal world, gong away to a place where her body and mind and the music were all the same thing. — Katherine Applegate
My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.
The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be. — Katherine Applegate
I've fought for more than three years. I was just thirteen when I started. I'm sixteen now, though that fact, like so many facts, has been deliberately obscured in the secret accounts we've kept.
I'm a sixteen-year-old kid named Jake Berenson, and I am the leader of the Animorphs. — Katherine Applegate
Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again. — Katherine Applegate
I'm picky. Not so much about looks, although even there I'm kind of picky. It's more that I can't pretend some guy is interesting when he's not. If he's immature, I'll probably tell him so. Within five minutes of knowing him. And if he looks ridiculous dressed up like some wannabe, I'll probably say that, too, or more likely just steer clear of him. — Katherine Applegate
I turned to him and kissed him, slowly lingeringly, my hands running over the hard, smooth curves and angles of his body. It wasn't that first kiss so many months before. This one was big and complicated and full of colours and textures. It held stories in it, and memories, and that made it even better. — Katherine Applegate
If you're stuck you could always double up with me at my place. It's the size of a postage stamp, but the roses are the size of poodles. So it sort of evens out. -Austin — Katherine Applegate
My mom told me once that money problems sort of sneak up on you. She said it's like catching a cold. At first you just have a tickle in your throat, and then you have a headache, and then maybe you're coughing a little. The next thing you know, you have a pile of Kleenexes around your bed and you're hacking your lungs up. — Katherine Applegate
Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun? — Katherine Applegate
Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice. — Katherine Applegate
Ax swiveled his stalk eyes toward me. — Katherine Applegate
Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart. — Katherine Applegate
Christopher flushed, gaped, and then laughed. I gave him credit for that. Lots of guys can laugh at someone else. Chistopher could laugh at himself. You see a lot less of that. — Katherine Applegate
Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars. — Katherine Applegate
Are you with us?" Prince Jake asked. I said. "Don't call me 'Prince.'" I said again. — Katherine Applegate
My visitors are often surprised when they see the TV Mack put in my domain. They seem to find it odd, the sight of a gorilla staring at tiny humans in a box. Sometimes I wonder, though: Isn't the way they stare at me, sitting in my tiny box, just as strange? — Katherine Applegate
I felt exalted.
It was my moment. This was my place and my
time and my own perfection.
I was no longer afraid. Weird. If I'd had a
mouth I'd have smiled.
I said.
No one moved.
I asked.
No answer.
I said, almost laughing. — Katherine Applegate
remember when my little sister first came home. But I don't remember trying to put her in a box so we could mail her back to the hospital. My — Katherine Applegate
am talking to my imaginary friend. I invented him when I was seven. He is here in our bathtub. He has a bubble beard. — Katherine Applegate
They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel — Katherine Applegate
My conscience was going to give me trouble on this one.
That's the naggy little person who lives in your brain and makes you feel guilty about stuff.
Man, I hate that guy sometimes. — Katherine Applegate
Everyone has parents. It's unavoidable. — Katherine Applegate
In dreams you lose normal cause and effect. You jump around in time. This is reality. Jalil — Katherine Applegate
Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy. — Katherine Applegate
You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down. — Katherine Applegate
I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts. — Katherine Applegate
I also don't understand why I should let some guy fondle me when I know the relationship has no future. — Katherine Applegate
Death's gruesome face taunts:
soulless eyes, crimson grimace.
I really hate clowns. — Katherine Applegate
People don't understand the word ruthless. They think it means 'mean.' It's not about being mean. It's about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It's about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it. — Katherine Applegate
The names are mine, but they're not me. — Katherine Applegate
Sticking your tongue in an electrical socket is dangerous- not to mention painful. -Marco — Katherine Applegate
When I'm drawing a picture, I feel ... quiet inside. — Katherine Applegate
Pain is life. Life is pain. — Katherine Applegate
Imagine being the only two free humans in all the world — Katherine Applegate
Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered. — Katherine Applegate
I don't think relationships just end for no reason," Diver said. "Sometimes it's too complicated for us to understand. All these interconnected things have to be just right before you can have love. That's why it's so amazing when it happens. Maybe it shouldn't be so surprising when it doesn't last. Maybe we should just be astounded that it happens at all. — Katherine Applegate
Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth. — Katherine Applegate
Interesting. Claws and teeth and ferocity mixed with the subtlety to manipulate creatures larger than itself. A worthy creature. — Katherine Applegate
Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are. — Katherine Applegate
Meantime, I was going to enjoy the magic while I could. — Katherine Applegate
I like not knowing everything. It makes things more interesting. — Katherine Applegate
Everyone deserves a shot ... and some deserve to be shot. — Katherine Applegate
And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity. — Katherine Applegate
I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. Alone. For — Katherine Applegate
Sometimes I know things before they happen. Sometimes I can see a scene in my head. Like watching a movie, and then it will happen. I think, did I make it happen? Or did I just see it somehow? — Katherine Applegate
Okay," I said. "I'll be there, but I promise to complain the entire time. — Katherine Applegate
Here's the thing, Jackson. Life is messy. It's complicated. It would be nice if life were always like this." He drew an imaginary line that kept going up and up. "But life is actually a lot more like this." He made a jiggly line that went up and down like a mountain range. "You just have to keep trying. — Katherine Applegate
A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends. — Katherine Applegate
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. — Katherine Applegate
Humans have very odd tastes. They think their music is beautiful. They are wrong. It is awful. All of it. And they completely ignore their greatest accomplishments: the cinnamon bun, the Snickers bar, the hot pepper, and the refreshing beverage called vinegar. — Katherine Applegate
Stella," I say after Julia and her father go home. "I can't sleep."
"Of course you can," she says. "You are the king of the sleepers."
"Shh," Bob says from his perch on my belly. "I'm dreaming about chili fries. — Katherine Applegate
Anger only gets in the way. — Katherine Applegate
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. — Katherine Applegate
Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out." (Marco) BAM! BAM! BAM! "Okay, so it's four trash cans," (Marco) " BAM! BAM! BAM! "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!" (Jake) — Katherine Applegate
My favorite color is rainbow. — Katherine Applegate
You are the One and Only Ivan," he calls.
I nod, then turn toward my family, my life, my home.
"Mighty Silverback," I whisper. — Katherine Applegate
You know a guy is funny when a week later you can still feel the little knives he stuck in you. — Katherine Applegate
You're sunny. You keep showing up here." Diver
"I'm not sunny, I'm alcohol. No, no, I mean, I'm Summer," Summer says.
"Don't say that," the little boy said, suddenly frightened. "You're disturbing my wa. — Katherine Applegate
I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away — Katherine Applegate
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply flawed species. And yet ... And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy. Perhaps the only hope. — Katherine Applegate
It's an alien toilet!" -Cassie — Katherine Applegate
Cassie asked.
asked Ax — Katherine Applegate
But I figured out after a while that I couldn't spend my life punishing everyone who deserved to be punished."
"So you just forgive them?" Diana said.
He shrugged. "I guess so. Not because they deserve to be forgiven. They don't. It's just that when you go around hating people and wanting to hurt them... You just can't do that. That isn't life. You forgive them so you can live. — Katherine Applegate
They think I'm too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise. — Katherine Applegate
Salt! Salt! And grease! Greee-suh!"Ax — Katherine Applegate
So, you propel rocks at me! You'll be very sorry you ever propelled a rock at me, human. — Katherine Applegate
Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. — Katherine Applegate
They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of a thousand hands, back and forth and back again. They hunt frantically, stalking, pushing, grumbling. Then they leave, clutching bags filled with things - bright things, soft things, big things - but no matter how full the bags, they always come back for more. — Katherine Applegate
So, there we were. The five of us - Marco, Tobias, Rachel, Cassie, and me. Five normal mallrats heading home.
Sometimes I think about that one, last moment when we were still just normal kids. It's like it was a million years ago, like it was some totally different group of kids. You know what I was afraid of right then? I was afraid of admitting to Tom that I hadn't made the team. That was as scary as life got back then.
Five minutes later, life got a lot scarier. — Katherine Applegate
With enough time, you can get used to almost anything. — Katherine Applegate
Rachel would be beautiful in the middle of mud slides and hailstorms. On a sweet, sunny day, she made my heart ache. — Katherine Applegate
She seemed beautiful to me. Is that strange? I suppose it is. But there is a compelling beauty in the sight of someone seemingly so small and yet so dangerous. — Katherine Applegate
I try to understand, but all I hear is a river of words, rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface. Now and then a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish, but then it's all dark moving water again. — Katherine Applegate
Someday, if we won, if humanity survived, we'd be in the history books. Me and Jake and Rachel and Cassie and Tobias and Ax. They'd be household names, like generals from World War II or the Civil War. Patton and Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee. Kids would study us in school. Bored, probably.
And then the teacher would tell the story of Marco. I'd be a part of history. What I was about to do. Some kid would laugh. Some kid would say, "Cold, man. That was really cold."
I had to do it, kid. It was a war. It's the whole point, you stupid, smug, smirking little jerk! Don't you get it?
It was the whole point. We hurt the innocent in order to stop the evil. Innocent Hork-Bajir. Innocent Taxxons. Innocent human-Controllers. How else to stop the Yeerks? How else to win?
No choice, you punk. We did what we had to do.
"Cold, man. The Marco dude? He was just cold. — Katherine Applegate
Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again. — Katherine Applegate
Today, tomorrow, sooner or later, you will meet someone who is lost, just as you yourself have been lost, and as you will be lost again someday. And when that happens, it is your duty to say I've been lost, too. Let me help you find your way home. — Katherine Applegate
Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens — Katherine Applegate
Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say. — Katherine Applegate
Seerow's kindness. Even then, all those years ago, i knew. My father's epitaph had just been written. — Katherine Applegate
The first time I met Crenshaw was about three years ago, right after first grade ended. It was early evening, and my family and I had parked at a rest stop off a highway. I was lying on the grass near a picnic table, gazing up at the stars blinking to life. I heard a noise, a wheels-on-gravel skateboard sound. I sat up on my elbows. Sure enough, a skater on a board was threading his way through the parking lot. I could see right away that he was an unusual guy. He was a black and white kitten. A big one, taller than me. His eyes were the sparkly color of morning grass. He was wearing a black and orange San Francisco Giants baseball cap. He hopped off his board and headed my way. He was standing on two legs just like a human. "Meow," he said. "Meow," I said back, because it seemed polite. — Katherine Applegate
Lesson Number One in Everworld: There's them, and there's us. And any day we can keep them from destroying us, that's a victory. — Katherine Applegate
So he taped a sign on the bathroom door that said OFFICE OF MR. THOMAS WADE. My mom put a sign next to it that said I'D RATHER BE FISHING. — Katherine Applegate
About chocolate: This is what laughing tastes like. — Katherine Applegate
I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice. — Katherine Applegate
She batted her eyelashes at me to show she was kidding.
I love it when she does that. — Katherine Applegate
I felt the way you do the instant before you leap into the deep end of a pool. You're on your way to somewhere else. You're not there yet. But you know there's no turning back. — Katherine Applegate
Jalil has this habit of not turning his head much, just moving his eyes, skeptical, appraising, not impressed by much. It takes him a while to talk and you might think he's slow. But when you get to know him, you realize he's slow to talk because his brain has already jumped ahead three spaces and he has to back up to deal with you. — Katherine Applegate
I soon learned that humans can screech even louder than monkeys. — Katherine Applegate