Katherine Applegate > Quotes

“Facts are important to scientists, which is what I want to be when I grow up. Nature facts are my favorite kind. Especially the ones that make people say No way.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“scruff,”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“The last memory I had, as the cold collapsed my consciousness, was of someone vast and incredible. A being like nothing I could have imagined. It saw me. It saw us all.
And it laughed.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Andalite Chronicles

“I’d feel hopeful then, for a while at least, that things would get better, that maybe, just maybe, anything was possible.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“One thing I've noticed about caring for little ones: you've got to get used to having wildly different feelings at the same time.
Each new day with youngsters is like a frenzied drawing, one that uses every single color in the crayon box.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Family

“Life is short. Play is good. And there are plenty of tennis balls to go around.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“I can feel him. He feels real. He smells like wet cat. He has fingers. Cats do not have fingers.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

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

“The narrator was gushing about this wonder dog, and I'm like, Well, duh, brainiac, of course we understand people.
Not everything, mind you. And some of us are more attentive than others. Depends a lot on just how interesting your humans happen to be.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

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

“Kinyani is Ivan's lady friend. Girlfriend? I've never been sure what they call it in gorilla.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob