Katherine Applegate > Quotes

“popcorn.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“whirlpool.”
― Katherine Applegate, Odder: The Novel

“Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“My friends call me Red,”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“cement”
― Katherine Applegate, Ivan & Friends 2-Book Collection: The One and Only Ivan and The One and Only Bob

“You can have your dogs and cats,
your gerbils and hamsters
and sleek sparkling fish.
But you will have lived just half a life
if you never love a cow.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“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

“Those guys need to switch to decaf.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Sadly, I cannot read, although I wish I could. Reading stories would make a fine way to fill my empty hours. Once, however, I was able to enjoy a book left in my domain by one of my keepers. It tasted like termite.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan & Bob ebook collection

“bumbershoot,”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“ponder”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Growing”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“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.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“Stop worrying about nothing.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“What brought us together? I sometimes wonder. Was it chance? Fate? Luck?
I often marvel at the randomness of it all, the tangled threads that wove us into something stronger than our individual selves.
That a time so dark could provide such light is a miracle, I think.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Family

“Gorillas don't have any use for tails. Our feelings are uncomplicated. Our rumps are unadorned.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Of all the things I didn't know
about America,
this is the most amazing:
I didn't know there would be so many tribes
from all over the world.
How could I have imagined
the way they walk through the world
side by side
without fear,
all free to gaze at the same sky
with the same hopes?”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“assured me. Still, I saw nothing. “Ambassador! Ambassador Delgaroth!” she called. The water parted with barely a ripple as he rose to the surface. Delgaroth was the deep blue of the sky just before night, with dazzling green markings on his flanks and face. His eyes were large for a natite, with dark blue irises surrounded by soft turquoise. When he blinked, it was with one or both of his two sets of eyelids. The first set was opaque, the second translucent. I’d been told that the clear eyelids allowed natites to see beneath the water. “Good morning to you, Ambassador,” said Khara with a nod. “And to you, Lady Kharassande of the Donatis,” Delgaroth said.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Only

“Ruby.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“anymore,”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“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, Crenshaw

“Then they got to this dog named Hach-something-or-other. Hatchet-toe, maybe? Seems his owner died (for the record, I object to the word “owner,” but we’ll set that aside for now), and Hach-something-or-other sat around for over nine years in the same spot at the same train station, day after day, waiting for him to return. Thing is, the narrator guy was blabbing on and on about this dog, really over-the-top stuff: How loyal! How loving! Break out the Kleenex! Blah blah blah, wah wah wah! Man’s best friend! They made a statue of this dog. I kid you not. A statue of the dog who sat around nine years waiting for a dead guy. in my opinion That dog was a ninny. A numskull. A nincompoop.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan & Bob ebook collection

“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, The One and Only Ivan

“We analyze the air the way humans read poetry, searching for invisible truths.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“and”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“kindness, wonder, courage, and gratitude—”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“Fall down seven times, get up eight.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“Her hair is thick and brown, the colour of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan & Bob ebook collection

“She’s so young. So small.” My mother’s voice trembled. “I had a dream, a terrible dream. They came for us. I dreamed she was the first to die.”

“The first to die.” My father was silent for a long while.

I remembered lying motionless, silent, scarcely breathing, waiting for more.

“I, too, had a dream,” my father said at last, sighing. “Worse in some ways. I dreamed”—his voice caught—“I dreamed she was the last to live.”

“No,” my mother said, and I could hear that she was softly sobbing. “Don’t even think such a thing.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Last

“I can see my imaginary friend. I can hear him. I can talk to him. He is using a towel.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw