Katherine Applegate > Quotes

“Maybe it's easier to forgive others once you've learned how to forgive yourself.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Decision

“What bothered me most, though, was that I couldn’t fix anything. I couldn’t control anything. It was like driving a bumper car without a steering wheel. I kept getting slammed, and I just had to sit there and hold on tight.”
― Katherine Applegate, Crenshaw

“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

“She spoke about her family she'd lost. She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. She had love to give, and no one to give it to.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“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

“The way I understand things, it’s like this. We live on a lonely ball called Earth, and humans have basically been throwing it against the wall for so long that the poor ol’ ball is falling apart.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“If you're not afraid, you're a fool. If you are afraid, even scared to death, and keep your head? That is called courage.”
― Katherine Applegate, The First

“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

“They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel”
― Katherine Applegate

“Maybe brave for a mouse is different from brave for me or brave for you.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Bob

“Stay.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“Now I draw every day. ... If I get tired and need a break, I eat my crayons.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“She is like a newborn sun, fresh with promise, the just beginning moments before the day fills like a bucket with good and bad, sweat and longing.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I’m not sure you understand. That box might be taking you to a place where there are other elephants,” I say. “A place with more room, and humans who care about you.” But even as I say these words, I remember with a shudder the last box I was in. “I don’t want a zoo,” Ruby says. “I want you and Bob and Julia. This is my home.” “No, Ruby,” I say. “This is your prison.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“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, Crenshaw

“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

“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, The One and Only Ivan

“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

“Okay," I said. "I'll be there, but I promise to complain the entire time.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Extreme

“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

“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

“The grocery store
has rows and rows
of color, of light,
of easy hope.
Hannah moves down the aisle,
but I stand like a tree rooted firm,
my eyes too full of this place,
with its answers to prayers
on every shelf.”
― Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave

“I soon learned that humans can screech even louder than monkeys.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Once again, I'm reminded that it's possible to be happy and sad, worried and hopeful, confused and certain, all at the same time.

Especially when you love someone dearly.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Family

“It is a great gift indeed to love who you are" -Red”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“Anger only gets in the way.”
― Katherine Applegate, The Change

“Ruby.
"She's here, Stella," I whisper "Ruby's safe. Just like I promised.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Hope is a thing made only for people,
a scrap to hold onto
in darkness and in light”
― Katherine Applegate

“Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. One minute you’re hugging us. The next minute you’re turning us into tables and tongue depressors.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree