Katherine Applegate > Quotes

“Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Beginning (Animorphs, #54)

“You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened. -Ax”
― 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, Beach Blondes: June Dreams, July's Promise, August Magic

“And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.

I tried to smile. For him.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Beginning (Animorphs, #54)

“Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Unknown

“What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some loves have a short shelf life? You know, like yogurt: after a week or two they go bad.
And how do you recognize the other kind of love, the kind that isn't like yogurt? The kind that's more like... I don't know, like peanut butter, that lasts forever and always tastes good?”
― Katherine Applegate

“ Tobias asked.
"Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on
the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into
dolphins . . . You're suggesting that's weird?”
― Katherine Applegate, The Message

“And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Unknown

“Love is alcohol.”
― Katherine Applegate

“Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.”
― Katherine Applegate, Land of Loss

“It's OAT-freaking-MEAL!”
― Katherine Applegate, The Underground

“Pain is life. Life is pain.”
― Katherine Applegate, Unknown Book 6330881

“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." -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill”
― Katherine Applegate

“Death's gruesome face taunts:
soulless eyes, crimson grimace.
I really hate clowns.”
― Katherine Applegate

“But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal”
― 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

“Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing," Marco said. "Just tell them
we're Animorphs."
"Tell them we're what?" Rachel asked.
"Idiot teenagers with a death wish," Marco said.
"Animorphs." I tried the word out. It sounded okay.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Invasion

“Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Beginning (Animorphs, #54)

“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, The One and Only Ivan

“My favorite color is rainbow.”
― Katherine Applegate, Roscoe Riley Rules #1: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs

“I laughed. 'You almighty Andalites. There is no limit to your arrogance, is there? Well, let me tell you something: we may be simple people. But we don't use biology to invent monsters. And we don't enslave other species. And we don't unleash a plague of parasites on the galaxy, endangering every other free species, and then go swaggering around like the lords of the universe. No, we're too simple for that. We're too stupid to lie and manipulate. We're too stupid to be ruthless. We're too stupid to know how to build powerful weapons designed to annihilate our enemies. Until you came, Andalite, we were too stupid to know how to kill.' -Dak Hamee”
― Katherine Applegate

“Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“David, when it happens... when it happens, David, will you save me?”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“You know a guy is funny when a week later you can still feel the little knives he stuck in you.”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.”
― Katherine Applegate, Animorphs

“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

“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

“But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“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, Search for Senna

“I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.”
― Katherine Applegate, Falling for Claire

“Humor. The just-nearly-died brand of giddy humor.”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“Hey I basically agree with you. I believe in what I can see, touch, eat, drink and spend. Everything else is bull."
April nodded. "You are so right, Christopher. I mean,you are so forceful and all that, you just get me hot. You really do, and we're going to die anyway, so just take me now." She scooted towards Christopher and lowered her voice to a husky whisper. "You think I'm kidding but I'm not. I want you here and now."
She was just convincing enough that Christopher made a sort of move to put his arm around her. She pushed away, laughing slyly.
"Ah, so you just believe in what you can see, huh? Looks to me like you were ready to believe in a miracle.”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“Maybe dreams aren't in your head. Maybe dreams are memories of another universe.”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“Ah." Ax nodded. "She does not understand how menacing we are." He tapped her on the shoulder. "You do not know me," he said, "but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow and I am causing mayhem in this store." He reached behind her and pulled three jars of baby food from the top shelf. Shoved them behind a box of macaroni. Shuffled the Chess Whizzed in front of the Marshmallow Fluff. Tossed a bag of lady's shavers onto a bag of hamburger buns. "There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened." "If she could see you, she'd have you committed," Marco muttered.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Diversion

“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

“About chocolate: "This is what laughing tastes like.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“Interesting. Claws and teeth and ferocity mixed with the subtlety to manipulate creatures larger than itself. A worthy creature.”
― Katherine Applegate

“ I said, mimicking the Disney World commercials. ”
― Katherine Applegate

“Seerow's kindness. Even then, all those years ago, i knew. My father's epitaph had just been written.”
― Katherine Applegate

“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“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, Land of Loss

“Hope is a thing made only for people,
a scrap to hold onto
in darkness and in light”
― 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, Tan Lines: Sand, Surf, and Secrets; Rays, Romance, and Rivalry; Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal

“I remember something my mama
used to say on dark days:
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.

Ganwar, I whisper,
what if she never comes?”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“In dreams you lose normal cause and effect. You jump around in time. This is reality. Jalil”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“I tried to tear my mind off my own self loathing.-David”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“I think that's his point," April said. "Not dumb, maybe. Just naive. I mean we come from a cynical age. Suspicious of everything. Maybe thats the advantage we have."
"Yeah our bad attitudes versus their swords and axes and giant wolves," Christopher said darkly.”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“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, Search for Senna

“Don't worry dreams aren't real. They're just neurons firing randomly in your brain.”
― Katherine Applegate, Search for Senna

“... 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